''Dobrogeites'' is a genus of

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) ...

s from the order

Ceratitida Ceratitida is an order that contains almost all ammonoid cephalopod genera from the Triassic as well as ancestral forms from the Upper Permian, the exception being the phylloceratids which gave rise to the great diversity of post Triassic ammoni ...

, included in the family Megaphyllitidae that produced evolute compressed planispiral shells with rounded venters, inner whorls ornamented as in Tirolites, outer whorls smooth, suture with multiple smooth lobes; Initially found in

Anisian In the geologic timescale, the Anisian is the lower stage or earliest age of the Middle Triassic series or epoch and lasted from million years ago until million years ago. The Anisian Age succeeds the Olenekian Age (part of the Lower Triassic Ep ...

(lower Triassic) sediments in Romania. The Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L put ''Dobrogeites'' in the Ceratitacean family

Aplococeratidae Aplococeratidae is a family of ceratitids from the Middle Triassic with very simplified sutures and a tendency to lose their ornamentation. Shells are generally evolute, more or less compressed, with rounded venters. Ornamentation if present con ...

. E.T. Tozer in 1981 includes the genus in the Megaphyllitidae, uniting it with ''Megaphyllites'', ''Metasturia'', and ''Nitanoceras''.

References

* Triassic ammonites Ammonites of Europe Ceratitida genera Anisian life {{jurassic-animal-stub