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Raymondiceratinae is a subfamily of Upper
Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, whe ...
cheiloceratid goniatites in which the sutures have 4 distinct lobes and the growth lines are convex. The subfamily includes three genera. *''
Raymondiceras ''Raymondiceras'' is genus of ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the Cheiloceratidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Devonian (Famennian The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Epoch. The mos ...
''. named by Schindewolf, 1934 which has a subglubular shell with small closed umbilici and sutures with an incipient lobe in the first lateral saddle. Type genus. *''
Melonites ''Nelomites'' is genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the Cheiloceratidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Devonian (Famennian The Famennian is the latter of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian Epoch. The most re ...
'' named by Bogoslovskii 1971, which was moved from Cheiloceratidae to Raymondiceratineae by Korn & Klug, 2002. *''
Roinghites ''Roinghites'' is genus of ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the Cheiloceratidae family. Species belonging to this genus lived in late Devonian (Famennian). Species and distribution * ''Roinghites aktubensis'' Bogoslovskii, 1960: ca 370.0 - 367 ...
'' named by Korn 2002, which has a thick discoidal shell, with closed umbilici in the adult; fine, convex growth lines and a very shallow, weakly and widely rounded lateral lobe.


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Goniat-Raymondiceratinae
Cheiloceratidae Late Devonian first appearances Late Devonian animals Late Devonian extinctions {{Goniatitida-stub