Goniatites bohemicus

Goniatites bohemicus
Temporal range:
Fossil of Goniatites bohemicus from Bavaria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
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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