Dombarites
| Dombarites | |
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| Phylum: | Mollusca |
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| Order: | Goniatitida |
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| Superfamily: | Goniatitaceae |
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| Genus: | Dombarites
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Dombarites is a genus belonging to the
goniatitid family Agathiceratidae; extinct ammonoids which are shelled cephalopods more closely related to squid, octopus and other coleoids than to the superficially similar Nautilus
According to Saunders, et al., 1999, Dombarites from the middle and upper Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) is the earliest of the Agathiceratidae; gave rise to Perclietes and Proshumardites in the late Early Carboniferous and indirectly to Agathiceras which first appeared in the middle Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian). Dombarites is derived from Goniatites, a genus in the Goniatitidae, in the middle Early Carboniferous.
References
- Saunders et al., 1999; Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material; Science Mag. [1]
- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07
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