Costigymnites
Costigymnites Temporal range: Lower Anisian
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ceratitida |
Family: | †Gymnitidae |
Genus: | †Costigymnites Krystyn and Tatzreiter, 1991 |
Species | |
C. asiaticus |
Costigymnites is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass that lived in lower Anisian (Bithynian, Ismidicus zone) in what is now Iran. The only known species is C. asiaticus, which is known from 2 incomplete specimens.[1]
References[]
- ^ KRYSTYN, Leopold; TATZREITER, Franz. Middle Triassic ammonoids from Aghdarband (NE-Iran) and their paleobiogeographical significance. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 1991, 38: 139-163.
Categories:
- Gymnitidae
- Ceratitida genera
- Middle Triassic ammonites
- Ammonites of Asia
- Ceratitida stubs