Costigymnites Temporal range: Lower
Anisian
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ceratitida |
Family: | † Gymnitidae |
Genus: | †
Costigymnites Krystyn and Tatzreiter, 1991 |
Species | |
C. asiaticus |
Costigymnites is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonite subclass that lived in lower Anisian ( Bithynian, Ismidicus zone) in what is now Iran. The only known species is C. asiaticus, which is known from 2 incomplete specimens. [1]