Michiganites
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Michiganites is a member of the ammonoid order Prolecanitida, named by Ruzhencev in 1962, which comes from the Visean stage of the Carboniferous
( middle Mississippian Meramacian)
Michiganites is placed in the suborder Prolecanitinae (the Prolecanitaceae
of Hyatt 1884) and in the family Prolecanitdae along with related genera, Becanites, Dombarocanites, Eocanites, Katacanites, Metacanites, and Prolecanites
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system that extends from the end of the Devonian Period, about 359.2 ± 2.5 Mya , to the beginning of the Permian Period, about 299.0 ± 0.8 Mya . The name is derived from the Latin word for coal, carbo. Carboniferous means "coal-bearing"...
( middle Mississippian Meramacian)
Michiganites is placed in the suborder Prolecanitinae (the Prolecanitaceae
Prolecanitaceae
Prolecanitaceae is a taxonomic superfamily of ammonites, fossil cephalopods. This is one of two superfamilies in the Prolecanitida. The other is the Medlicottiaceae....
of Hyatt 1884) and in the family Prolecanitdae along with related genera, Becanites, Dombarocanites, Eocanites, Katacanites, Metacanites, and Prolecanites
References
- Paleobiology Database
- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea; Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, 1957.