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Costigymnites
Temporal range: Lower Anisian 243.7–242.5  Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
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]

References

  1. ^ KRYSTYN, Leopold; TATZREITER, Franz. Middle Triassic ammonoids from Aghdarband (NE-Iran) and their paleobiogeographical significance. Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, 1991, 38: 139-163.