Roinghites

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Roinghites
Temporal range: Famennian[1][2]
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Mollusca
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Goniatitida
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Roinghites

Korn, 2002

Roinghites is genus of ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the Cheiloceratidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Devonian (Famennian).

Species and distribution

  • Roinghites aktubensis Bogoslovskii, 1960: ca 370.0 - 367.6 mya of Kazakhstan (South Urals). Originally named as Raymondiceras aktubense[1]
  • Roinghites bottkei Korn, 2002: ca 367.6 - 366.8 mya of Germany (Rhenish mountains). Type species of genus.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Goniat database". Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  2. ^ Korn D, Klug C (2002) Ammoneae Devonicae. Fossilium Catalogus 138. Backhuys, Leiden