Nannites

Nannites
Nannites
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ceratitida
Superfamily: Danubitaceae
Family: Nannitidae
Genus: Nannites
Mojsisovics (1897)

Nannites is a genus in the ammonoid cephalopod order Ceratitida from the middle and upper Triassic (Lanidian and Carnian) of the Alps, named by Mojsisovics (1897). Nannties is the type genus of the Nannitidae which has been placed in the Danubitaceae. Previously the Nannitidae was included in the Ptychitaceae along with the Ptychitidae and, Isculitidae.

Nannites is very small, subglobose, generally evolute and smooth, with a rounded venter, and simple goniatitic sutures.

References

  • Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea; Geological Society of America and University of Kansas, 1957,
  • Database Aug 2009.

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