Goniatites bohemicus

Goniatites bohemicus
Temporal range: Mississippian
Fossil of "Goniatites bohemicus" from Bavaria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Fossil of Goniatites bohemicus from Bavaria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Family: †Goniatitidae
Genus: †Goniatites
Species:
†G. bohemicus
Binomial name
†Goniatites bohemicus
Barrande 1865

Goniatites bohemicus is a species of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae.[1][2]

These slow-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Mississippian epoch during the Carboniferous period[3] in what is now Bohemia.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Global Names Index". Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-03.
  2. ^ Europeana
  3. ^ Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf, 1957. Paleozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Society of America.
  4. ^ Joachim Barrande Systême Silurien


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