''Roinghites'' is genus of

ammonoid Ammonoids are extinct, (typically) coiled-shelled cephalopods comprising the subclass Ammonoidea. They are more closely related to living octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish (which comprise the clade Coleoidea) than they are to nautiluses (family N ...

cephalopod belonging to the

Cheiloceratidae Cheiloceratidae is a family of ammonoid cephalopods included in the goniatitid suborder Tornoceratina in which the suture has 4 to 12 lobes, the ventral one undivided and those in the lateral areas originating as subdivisions of internal and ex ...

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

. Species belonging to this genus lived in late

Devonian The Devonian ( ) is a period (geology), geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system of the Paleozoic era (geology), era during the Phanerozoic eon (geology), eon, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the preceding Silurian per ...

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Famennian The Famennian is the later of two faunal stages in the Late Devonian epoch. The most recent estimate for its duration is that it lasted from around 371.1 to 359.3 million years ago. An earlier 2012 estimate, still used by the International Commis ...

Species and distribution

* ''Roinghites aktubensis'' Bogoslovskii, 1960: ca 370.0 - 367.6 mya of Kazakhstan (South Urals). Originally named as '' Raymondiceras aktubense'' * ''Roinghites bottkei'' Korn, 2002: ca 367.6 - 366.8 mya of Germany (Rhenish mountains). Type species of genus.

References

Goniatitida genera Cheiloceratidae Late Devonian ammonites Fossils of Kazakhstan Ammonites of Asia Famennian life Famennian genus first appearances Famennian genus extinctions {{Goniatitida-stub