Gatunek typowy
Goniatites spiralis Phillips, 1841

Opis

Conch thick disk-shaped to spherical; umbilicus moderately wide; ornamentation with 30-60 strong spiral stripes and fine, biconvex and prorsidiate growth lines; most species have regularly occurring, strong shell constrictions; lobe line with external lobe from medium width, whose flanks diverge strongly; median saddle low, ventrolateral saddle broadly rounded; adventitious lobe symmetrical with slightly curved flanks.

Synonimy
Paragoniatites Librovich, 1938

Zasięg czasowy

Carboniferous, Serpukhovian-Bashkirian

Literatura

Brüning, K. 1923a. Beiträge zur Kenntnis des rheinisch-westfälischen Unterkarbons. Geologisches Archiv 1: 263-266.

Korn, D. & Titus, A.L. 2011. Goniatites Zone (middle Mississippian) ammonoids of the Antler Foreland Basin (Nevada, Utah). Bulletin of Geosciences 86 (1): 107–196.