Aphantites Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Reticuloceratidae

Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1978. Namyurskii etap v evolyutsii ammonoidyey - Namurian stage, evolution of ammonoids. Trudyi paleontologicheskovo instituta 167:1-338

Parent taxon: Surenitinae according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009

See also Korn 2006 and Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978

Sister taxa: Gaitherites, Marianoceras, Melvilloceras, Surenites, Ugamites, Verneuilites

Subtaxa: Aphantites aenigmaticus

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Type: Aphantites aenigmaticus

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Aravan River, SW of Yangi-Kurgan, NE of Koksarau Mt., Sample 3, Fergana (Carboniferous of Uzbekistan)

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