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Maximites

Maximites is a genus of Late Carboniferous ammonoids. Adult specimens were the smallest known ammonoids, only at about 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter of shells. Fossils are found in various Late Carboniferous marine strata in North America. Maximites is the sole genus of Maximitidae, one of two families of the Superfamily Pseudohaloritoidea, an important subgroup of the order Goniatitida.

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Maximites
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Goniatitida
Superfamily: †Pseudohaloritoidea
Family: †Maximitidae
Ruzhencev 1960
Genus: †Maximites
Miller and Furnish, 1957

Maximites is a genus of Late Carboniferous ammonoids. Adult specimens were the smallest known ammonoids, only at about 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter of shells.1 Fossils are found in various Late Carboniferous marine strata in North America. Maximites is the sole genus of Maximitidae, one of two families of the Superfamily Pseudohaloritoidea, an important subgroup of the order Goniatitida.

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  1. Nishiguchi, M.K., R. Mapes (2008). "Cephalopoda" (PDF). University of California Press. pp. 163–199.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)