Quinnites

Quinnites Temporal range: Carboniferous PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Goniatitida
Family:	†Reticuloceratidae
Subfamily:	†Reticuloceratinae
Genus:	†Quinnites Manger and Saunders, 1980

Quinnites is a genus of goniatitid ammonites included in the gastrioceratoidean family Reticuloceratidae known from the Carboniferous of the state of Arkansas, USA.[1]

Description

Quinnites can be recognized by its thickly discoidal shell with a wide umbilicus and double pronged ventral lobe with a median saddle about half as high as the entire lobe. Umbilical ribs are common. May have spiral ornamentation, constrictions, or ventral groove.[2]

Taxonomy

Quinnites, named by Manger and Saunders 1980, contains two species, Quinnites henbesti and Quinnites textum, both removed from Gastrioceras (Branneroceras).

References

1. Quinnites in Fossilworks
2. Quinnites in Gonait on Line