Adrianitaceae

Goniatitina
Temporal range: M Pennsylvanian - M Permian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Goniatitida
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Adrianitaceae
Schindewolf 1931
families

Adrianitaceae is one of seventeen superfamilies currently included in the Goniatitina, but only one of six there included in the Treatise, 1957. Shells are subdiscoidal to globose with variable umbilici and sutures with 10 to 30 lobes, which tend to be subequal.

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