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Description

Dombarites is a genus belonging to the goniatitid family Agathiceratidae; extinct ammonoids which are shelled cephalopods more closely related to squid, octopus and other coleoids than to the superficially similar Nautilus

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dombarites, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4623918	https://www.gbif.org/species/4623918
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	13681	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=13681

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Delepinoceratidae : Dombarites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Goniatitida : Delepinoceratidae : Dombarites

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea
order	Goniatitida	Hyatt 1884
suborder	Goniatitina	Hyatt 1884
superfamily	Goniatitoidea
family	Delepinoceratidae	Ruzhencev 1957
subfamily	Dombaritinae	Kullmann 2007
genus	Dombarites	Librovitch 1947

Scientific Name

Dombarites Librovitch, 1947

Name Published In

Byull. Moskov. Obshch. Isp. Prirod. (Geol.), 22, (5

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Dombarites	genus	belongs to Agathiceratidae	stated with evidence	Korn et al., 1999
Dombarites	genus	belongs to Goniatitida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Dombarites	genus	belongs to Agathiceratidae	stated with evidence	Korn, 2006
Dombarites	genus	belongs to Dombaritinae	stated with evidence	Furnish et al., 2009

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

336 - 326 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

326 - 318 Ma
Carboniferous

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Goniatitida)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dombarites

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Dombarites bellornatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	336 Ma Carboniferous	336 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites carinatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites clemens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	331 Ma Carboniferous	331 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites falcatoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	21	336 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites granofalcatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	336 Ma Carboniferous	336 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites linteroides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	3	336 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites liratostriatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites liratus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	336 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites parafalcatoides ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	16	336 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites paratectus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites semiliratus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	6	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous
Dombarites tectus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	10	326 Ma Carboniferous	326 Ma Carboniferous

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1957	Dombarites Librovitch
1999	Dombarites Korn et al. p. 358
2002	Dombarites Sepkoski, Jr.
2006	Dombarites Korn
2009	Dombarites Furnish et al. p. 57
2015	Dombarites Korn and Titus p. 94
2016	Dombarites Korn and Sudar p. 205

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Korn D., Klug C., et al (1999) Viséan and Early Namurian Ammonoids from the Tafilalt (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco), Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 54, 345-375

Korn D. (2006) Paleozoic ammonoid classification

Furnish W. M., Glenister B. F., et al (2009) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised: Mollusca 4, Volume 2: Carboniferous and Permian Ammonoidea (Goniatitida and Prolecanitida), 1-258

Korn D., Titus A. L. (2015) Taxonomic descriptions, in Late Viséan (late Mississippian) ammonoids from the Barnett Shale, Sierra Diablo Escarpment, Culberson County, Texas, USA, Fossil Record 18, 81-104

Korn D., Sudar M. N. (2016) The Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous ammonoids (Cephalopoda) from Milivojevia Kamenjar, Družeti (NW Serbia) and their stratigraphy, Bulletin of Geosciences 91, 187-220

GBIF/Paleo Database - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Byull. Moskov. Obshch. Isp. Prirod. (Geol.), 22, (5 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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