Quinnites
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Quinnites
Manger and Saunders, 1980
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Quinnites is a gonititid cephalopod included in the gastrioceratacean family Reticuloceratidae known from the Carboniferous of the state of Arkanas, USA.[1]
Description
Quinnites can be recognized by its thickly discoidal shell with a wide umbilicus and double pronged ventral lobe with a midian 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 remeoved from Gastrioceras (Branneroceras).
- ↑ Quinnites in Fossilworks
- ↑ Quinnites in Gonait on Line
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