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Agoniatites
Taxonomy
Agoniatites was named by Meek (1877) [Sepkoski's age data: D Eife-l D Give-u Sepkoski's reference number: 457]. Its type is Goniatites expansus. It is the type genus of Agoniatitaceae, Agoniatitidae, Agoniatitinae.
It was reranked as Aphyllites (Agoniatites) by Fuchs (1915).
It was assigned to Aphyllites by Fuchs (1915); to Anarcestida by Sepkoski (2002); to Agoniatitinae by Korn and Klug (2002); and to Agoniatitidae by Arkell et al. (1957), Korn (2006).
It was reranked as Aphyllites (Agoniatites) by Fuchs (1915).
It was assigned to Aphyllites by Fuchs (1915); to Anarcestida by Sepkoski (2002); to Agoniatitinae by Korn and Klug (2002); and to Agoniatitidae by Arkell et al. (1957), Korn (2006).
Species
A. (Agoniatites), A. annulatus, A. aplanatus, A. barroisi, A. bicanaliculatus, A. costulatus (syn. Goniatites roemeri, Goniatites euryomphalus, Goniatites crassus, Aphyllites acutus), A. evexus (syn. A. urfensis), A. expansus (syn. Goniatites vanuxemi), A. floweri, A. fulguralis (syn. Goniatites pentangularis), A. gannanensis, A. guangxiensis, A. holzapfeli, A. intermedius, A. nodiferus, A. obliquus (syn. A. complanatus, A. oxynotus), A. oliveri, A. opimus, A. phillipsi, A. punctatus, A. tetrolcus, A. transitorius, Aphyllites (Agoniatites) falcistria
Species lacking formal opinion data
Entered
by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23; modified by M. Clapham on 2015-07-17
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1877 | Agoniatites Meek |
| 1915 | Aphyllites (Agoniatites) Fuchs |
| 1957 | Agoniatites Arkell et al. p. 31 |
| 2002 | Agoniatites Korn and Klug p. 84 |
| 2002 | Agoniatites Sepkoski |
| 2006 | Agoniatites Korn |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. †Agoniatites Meek 1877
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Subg. †Agoniatites (Agoniatites) Meek 1877
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†Agoniatites (Agoniatites) praeceps Chlupac and Turek 1983
†Agoniatites annulatus Maurer 1876
†Agoniatites aplanatus Petter 1959
†Agoniatites barroisi Frech 1902
†Agoniatites bicanaliculatus Sandberger and Sandberger 1856
†Agoniatites costulatus d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1842
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Invalid names: Aphyllites acutus Sobolev 1909 [synonym], Goniatites crassus Holzapfel 1895 [synonym], Goniatites euryomphalus Holzapfel 1895 [synonym], Goniatites roemeri Holzapfel 1882 [synonym]
†Agoniatites floweri Miller 1938
†Agoniatites fulguralis Whidborne 1890
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Invalid names: Goniatites pentangularis Whidborne 1890 [synonym]
†Agoniatites gannanensis Ruan 1987
†Agoniatites guangxiensis Xu 1977
†Agoniatites holzapfeli Wedekind 1918
†Agoniatites intermedius Flower 1936
†Agoniatites nodiferus Hall 1886
†Agoniatites obliquus Whidborne 1890
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Invalid names: Agoniatites complanatus Wedekind 1918 [synonym], Agoniatites oxynotus Wedekind 1918 [synonym]
†Agoniatites oliveri House 1978
†Agoniatites opimus White and Whitfield 1862
†Agoniatites phillipsi Wedekind 1918
†Agoniatites punctatus Conrad 1838
†Agoniatites tetrolcus Ruan 1981
†Agoniatites transitorius Phillips 1841
†Aphyllites (Agoniatites) falcistria Fuchs 1915
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 8 | 12.6 | 2.40 | 27.0 | 22.0 | 10.0 | |
| shell diameter | 8 | 29.2 | 6.80 | 59.0 | 43.0 | 20.1 | |
| shell inflation | 8 | 7.89 | 2.90 | 15.0 | 8.75 | 3.97 |
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Age range: base of the Late/Upper Emsian to the top of the Givetian or 399.50000 to 382.31000 Ma
Collections (61 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early/Lower Devonian - Eifelian | Czechia | A. praeceps (12148) | |
| Devonian | USA (Alaska) | A. sp. (114978) | |
| Late/Upper Emsian | Czechia | A. praeceps (172686) | |
| Late/Upper Emsian - Eifelian | Czechia | A. praeceps (172683) | |
| Eifelian | Morocco | A. bicanaliculatus (38760) A. sp., A. obliquus (38791) A. sp., A. vanuxemi, A. bicanaliculatus, A. obliquus (38798) A. vanuxemi (38757 38770 38781 38785 38788 38797) A. vanuxemi, A. bicanaliculatus (38765) | |
| Eifelian | Algeria | A. sp. A (40369 40372 40463) A. sp. A, A. sp. B (40462) A. sp. B (40366 40368 40458) | |
| Eifelian | Czechia (Barrandia) | A. annulatus (12252) | |
| Eifelian | USA (Nevada) | A. sp. (3830) | |
| Eifelian | Czechia | A. annulatus (172687 172688 172689) A. costulatus (172703 172704 172705 172707) A. costulatus, A. holzapfeli (172710) A. holzapfeli (172715) A. nodiferus (172716) A. sp., A. costulatus (172709 172713 172714) A. sp., A. costulatus, A. holzapfeli (172702) A. sp., A. costulatus, A. holzapfeli, A. nodiferus (172706 172708 172712) | |
| Eifelian | USA (New York) | A. nodiferus (83116 83119) A. vanuxemi (83120) | |
| Eifelian - Givetian | Canada (Northwest Territories) | A. sp. (623) | |
| Eifelian - Givetian | Czechia (Barrandia) | A. sp., A. praeceps, A. holzapfeli, A. nodiferus (12258) | |
| Givetian | Czechia (Barrandia) | A. costulatus (12259) | |
| Givetian | USA (New York) | A. discoideus (89892) A. vanuxemi (9380 9486 9487) | |
| Givetian | Morocco | A. obliquus (38767 38782 38786) A. sp. (38779) A. vanuxemi (38758 38771) A. vanuxemi, A. obliquus (38789) | |
| Givetian | Morocco (Sahara) | A. sp. (79549) | |
| Givetian | Czechia | A. costulatus (172711) | |
| Givetian | Algeria | A. costulatus (40373 40376) |