Agoniatites

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Agoniatites
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
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Agoniatites expansus fossil, National Museum of Natural History
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Agoniatitida
Family: Agoniatitidae
Genus: Agoniatites
Meek, 1877

Agoniatites is a genus of primitive ammonoids belonging to the order Agoniatitida family Agoniatitidae.

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Species of this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivore shelled ammonoids. They lived in the Eifelian and Givetian ages of the middle Devonian period, which occurred 385.3-397.5 million years ago.

Vanuxemi agoniatites is a rare species in this group which is the only ammonoid found in the Hamilton Group (Mahantango Formation) in Pennsylvania and New York.

Fossil distribution

Devonian of Algeria, Canada (Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic, Morocco, Russia, United States (Alaska, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania)

Species

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