Crossword-Solution: GONIATITE
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| Goniatite | n. | One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic. |
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| type of extinct cephalopod mollusc similar to an ammonite | 1 answer |
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The _Goniatite_ is another genus, nearly allied to the _Ammonite,_ from which it differs in having the lobes of the septa free from lateral denticulations, or crenatures; so that the outline of these is angular, continuous, and uninterrupted.
The dorsal position of the siphuncle, however, clearly distinguishes the Goniatite from the Nautilus, and proves it to have belonged to the family of the Ammonites, from which, indeed, some authors do not believe it to be generically distinct.
The venerable Orthoceras and the Goniatite linger on through the epoch and into the first period of the succeeding era.
The _Goniatite_ is another genus, nearly allied to the _Ammonite_, from which it differs in having the lobes of the septa free from lateral denticulations, or crenatures; so that the outline of these is continuous and uninterrupted (see _a_, fig.
Among the Cephalopoda we find _Bellerophon_ and _Orthoceras_, as in the Silurian and Carboniferous groups, and _Goniatite_ and _Cyrtoceras_, as in the Carboniferous.