Description
- Goniatite
- Devonian Age
- North Africa
- Frame measures 6.25″ tall x 7.25″ wide and is ready to hang
- The Goniatite measures approx. 3 3/16″ wide and is affixed to a natural black slate
Goniatids, informally goniatites, are ammonoid cephalopods that form the order Goniatitida, derived from the more primitive Agoniatitida during the Middle Devonian some 390 million years ago (around Eifelian stage). Goniatites (goniatitids) survived the Late Devonian extinction to flourish during the Carboniferous and Permian only to become extinct at the end of the Permian some 139 million years later.
