Goniatites bohemicus

Goniatites bohemicus is a species of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae.[1][2]

Goniatites bohemicus
Temporal range:
Fossil of "Goniatites bohemicus" from Bavaria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Fossil of Goniatites bohemicus from Bavaria, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Family: †Goniatitidae
Genus: †Goniatites
Species:
†G. bohemicus
Binomial name
†Goniatites bohemicus
Barrande 1865

These slow-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Mississippian epoch during the Carboniferous period[3] in what is now Bohemia.[4]

References
  1. Global Names Index
  2. Europeana
  3. Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf, 1957. Paleozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Society of America.
  4. Joachim Barrande Systême Silurien
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