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Agoniatites

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Agoniatites
Temporal range: Middle Devonian
Agoniatites expansus fossil, National Museum of Natural History
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Agoniatites

Meek (1877)

Agoniatites is a genus of primitive ammonoids belonging to the order Agoniatitida family Agoniatitidae.

Species of this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivore shelled ammonoids. They lived in the Eifelian and Givetian ages of the middle Devonian period, which occurred 385.3-397.5 million years ago.

Vanuxemi agoniatites is a rare species in this group which is the only ammonoid found in the Hamilton Group (Mahantango Formation) in Pennsylvania and New York.

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Devonian of Algeria, Canada (Northwest Territories), the Czech Republic, Morocco, Russia, United States (Alaska, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania)

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