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''Capricornites'' is a genus of rutoceratids (Nautiloidea - Cephalopoda) from the Devonian, related to such genera as '' Rutoceras'' and ''
Goldringia ''Goldringia'' is an extinct nautilid of the Rutoceratidae family that lived during the Middle Devonian. It is known from New York, Ohio, and Indiana in the United States. ''Goldringia'', named by Rousseau Flower in 1945, has a gyroconic sh ...
''. In some taxonomies (Manda & Turek, 2009) the Rutoceratidae are included in the
Oncocerida The Oncocerida comprise a diverse group of generally small nautiloid cephalopods known from the Middle Ordovician to the Mississippian (early Carboniferous; one possible member is known from the Early Permian), in which the connecting rings are ...
rather than in the
Nautilida The Nautilida constitute a large and diverse order of generally coiled nautiloid cephalopods that began in the mid Paleozoic and continues to the present with a single family, the Nautilidae which includes two genera, ''Nautilus'' and '' Allonau ...
The name has been mis-spelt as ''Capriocornites'' in some tabulations.


References

* Stepan Manda & Voitech Turek, 2009. Revision of the Pagian Rutoceratoidea Hyatt, 1884 (Nautiloidea, Oncocerida) from the Prague Basin. ''Bulletin of Geosciences'' 84(1), 127–148 (13 figures). Czech Geological Survey, Pragu

* Barnhard Kummel, 1964. Nautiloidea-Nautilida.
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology The ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology'' (or ''TIP'') published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and co ...
, Part K. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. * * J.J. Sepkoski 2002. List of Cephalopod genera

Prehistoric nautiloid genera Nautiloids {{paleo-nautiloidea-stub