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Mimagoniatites

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Family
  
Agoniatitidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Agoniatitida

Subfamily
  
Mimagoniatitinae

Similar
  
Agoniatites, Tornoceras, Bactritida, Manticoceras, Polygnathus

Mimagoniatites is a genus of ammonoid cephalopod which lived during the early Devonian, regarded as belonging to the Agoniatitdae as a member of the subfamily Mimagoniatitinae.

The shell is discoidal, primarily evolute, becoming mildly involute in later growth stage, moderately to rapidly expanding. Whorl section of first two whorls approximately circular, subtrapezoidal in later whorls. Umbilicas perforated, protoconch swollen, not in contact with first whorl. Growth lines biconvex with prominent ventrolateral projections and a deep ventral sinus.

References

Mimagoniatites Wikipedia