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The Hungaritidae comprises a family of
ceratitid 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 ...
ammonites described in the Treatise,(Arkell et al. 1957), as involute compressed, discoidal, with keeled or sharpened venter, smooth to weakly costate. Sutures ceratitid, usually with numerous elements. Hungaritids are Middle Triassic in age spanning a range from about 247 Ma to 235 Ma. By current assessment six genera are included.
:'' Hungarites'', type genus :'' Gevanites'' :'' Iberites'' :'' Negebites'' :'' Paraceratitoides'' :'' Perrinoceras'' Arkell, et al. 1957, in Part L of the original treatise lists instead: ''Hungarites'', ''Noetlingites'', ''Longobardites'', ''Neodalmanites'', ''Groenlandites'', ''Perrinoceras'', ''Arctohungarites'', ''Dalmanites'', and ''Prohungarites''. Only two have remained, Hungarites and Perrinoceras. ''Longobardites'' has been removed as type genus for the
Longobarditidae Longobarditidae is a family of ceratitd ammonoids known from the early Triassic, included in the Danubitaceae The Danubitoidea is a large and diverse superfamily in the order Ceratitida of the Ammonoidea that combines five families removed fr ...
, along with ''Arctohungarites'', ''Groenlandites'', and ''Noetlingites''.


References

*Arkell, et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Mollusca 4. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
Hungaritidae
PbDb 12/01/13 Triassic ammonites Ceratitoidea {{Ceratitida-stub