''Aldanites'' is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the
ammonoid
Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
order
Goniatitida
Goniatids, informally goniatites, are Ammonoidea, ammonoid cephalopods that form the order Goniatitida, derived from the more primitive Agoniatitida during the Middle Devonian some 390 million years ago (around Eifelian stage). Goniatites (goniat ...
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''Aldanites'', named by Ruzhencev, 1965, is confined to the Lower Pennsylvanian Period (late Carboniferous) and is included in the Orulganitidae, a family in the Schistoceratacea, a goniatitid superfamily.
''References''
Aldanites-Paleodb* Saunders, Work, and Nikolaeva 1999. Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, supplementary materia
* W. M. Furnish, et al. 2009. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised: Mollusca 4, Volume 2: Carboniferous and Permian Ammonoidea (Goniatitida and Prolecanitida) pp1–258.
Goniatitida genera
Orulganitidae
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