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Definition of Goniatite

Goniatite
Goniatite Go"ni*a*tite, n. [Gr. ? angle.] (Paleon.) One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.

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- Goniatids, informally goniatites, are ammonoid cephalopods that form the order Goniatitida, derived from the more primitive Agoniatitida during the Middle...
- Goniatites is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae. Hibernicoceras and Hypergoniatites...
- Goniatites crenistria is a species of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae. These fast-moving...
- Goniatites bohemicus is a species of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae. These slow-moving...
- and Cretaceous ammonoids, but extends back all the way to the Permian. Goniatites plebeiformis showing Goniatitic suture Protrachyceras pseudoarchelonus...
- straight-s****ed and curved-s****ed forms becoming increasingly rare. Goniatite ammonoids such as Aenigmatoceras are common. Trilobites are rarer than...
- productid and spiriferid brachiopods, bivalves, forams, ammonoids (including goniatites), and orthoceridans all abundant. Crown reptiles arise from earlier diapsids...
- with goniatite-Bivalvia, at Sliabh an Iarainn. She described some rock layers as particularly fossiliferous, the shale bands abundant with goniatite faunas...
- Monoplacophora-like form: Knightoconus? First appearance of long-lasting lineages Goniatite and ceratite ammonoids Probable coleoid ancestor Bactritida Early coleoids:...
- Platyclymenia Zone) indicating that the Goniatite Bed is an intraformational slump. Eight metres above the Goniatite Band is a metre-thick limestone conglomerate...