Goniatitina

Goniatitina Temporal range: Middle Devonian – Late Permian
Fossil of Goniatites bohemicus from Bavaria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Goniatitida
Suborder:	†Goniatitina Hyatt, 1884
Superfamilies
See text

Goniatitina is one of two suborders included in the order Goniatitida; extinct Paleozoic ammonoid cephalopods only distantly related to the Nautiloidea.

Taxonomy

The Goniatitina contains 17 defined superfamilies, listed below.

• Adrianitoidea
• Cycloloboidea
• Dimorphoceratoidea
• Gastrioceratoidea
• Goniatitoidea
• Gonioloboceratoidea
• Marathonitoidea
• Neodimorphoceratoidea
• Neoglyphioceratoidea
• Neoicoceratoidea
• Nomismoceratoidea
• Pericycloidea
• Popanoceratoidea
• Schistoceratoidea
• Shumarditoidea
• Somoholitoidea
• Thalassoceratoidea

References

• Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf, 1957, Paleozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
• Saunders, Work, and Nikoleva 1999. Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary material. Science 22 October 1999: Vol. 286 no. 5440 pp. 760–763. Abstract
• Goniatitina in GONIAT online
• suborder Goniatitina Hyatt 1884, Paleodb query, 4/18/14.