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Lituites is an
extinct nautiloid genus from the
Middle Ordovician and type for the
Lituitidae (a
tarphycerid family) that in some more
recent taxonomies...
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another type of extinct, straight-s****ed cephalopod.
Belemnite Hamites Lituites Paleontological Institute. "Part K,
Mollusca 3".
Treatise on Invertebrate...
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transitional forms such as the
Ordovician Lituites can be
rejected out of hand as
evolutionarily unlikely.
Lituites and the
Lituitidae are
derived tarphycerids...
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million years. Many were
initially straight-s****ed, as in the
extinct genus Lituites. They
developed in the Late
Cambrian period and
became a
significant group...
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Ammonoidea Belemnoidea Lituites "The Cephalopoda". The
University of
California Museum of Paleontology...
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lower and
middle of the period. Five
genera included the type genus,
Lituites, are
known only from the
Middle Ordovician and one, Tyrioceras, is known...
- semi-tubular
cyrtoconic section.
Ancistroceras may also have
given rise to
Lituites by
evolving a narrower, less
rapidly expanding,
orthocone along with greater...
- †Librovitschiceras †Linstroemoceras †Liroceras †Lispoceras †Litoceras †Litogyroceras †
Lituites †Llanoceras †Lobendoceras †Loganoceras †Lophoceras †Lopingoceras †Lorieroceras...
- deep
hyponomic and
ocular sinuses, not too
dissimilar from the
Ordovician Lituites, to
which this
genus is
possibly allied. Some 12
species have been described...
- (late Přídolí)
Upper Setul Limestone Malaysia A
member of Orthocerida.
Lituites evolutus Sp. nov
Valid Fang, Chen &
Zhang in Fang et al.
Ordovician Datianba...