''Michiganites'' is a member of the
ammonoid
Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
order Prolecanitida, named by Ruzhencev in 1962, which comes from the Meramacian stage of Mississippian Period (early
Carboniferous
The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...
Visian).
The shell of ''Michiganites'' is discoidal and smooth, as for the family. The ventral lobe of the suture is expanded; three lobes are formed on either side.
''Michiganites'' is placed in the suborder Prolecanitinae (the
Prolecanitaceae of Hyatt 1884) and in the family Prolecanitidae along with related genera, ''Becanites'', ''Dombarocanites'', ''Eocanites'', ''Katacanites'', ''Metacanites'', and ''Prolecanites''
References
* GONIAT on lin
Paleobiology Database* Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea; Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, 1957.
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Mississippian ammonites
Prolecanitida