Dombarites
Genus of molluscs (fossil)
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Dombarites is a genus belonging to the goniatitid family Agathiceratidae; extinct ammonoids which are shelled cephalopods more closely related to squid, octopus and other coleoids than to the superficially similar Nautilus
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Goniatitida |
| Family: | †Agathiceratidae |
| Genus: | †Dombarites |
According to Saunders, et al., 1999, Dombarites from the middle and upper Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) is the earliest of the Agathiceratidae; gave rise to Perclietes and Proshumardites in the late Early Carboniferous and indirectly to Agathiceras which first appeared in the middle Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian). Dombarites is derived from Goniatites, a genus in the Goniatitidae, in the middle Early Carboniferous.
References
- Saunders et al., 1999; Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material; Science Mag.
- The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07
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