Dombarites

Dombarites is a genus belonging to the goniatitid family Agathiceratidae; extinct ammonoids which are shelled cephalopods more closely related to squid, octopus and other coleoids than to the superficially similar Nautilus

Dombarites
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	Goniatitida
Suborder:	Goniatitina
Superfamily:	Goniatitaceae
Family:	Agathiceratidae
Genus:	Dombarites

According to Saunders, et al., 1999, Dombarites from the middle and upper Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) is the earliest of the Agathiceratidae; gave rise to Perclietes and Proshumardites in the late Early Carboniferous and indirectly to Agathiceras which first appeared in the middle Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian). Dombarites is derived from Goniatites, a genus in the Goniatitidae, in the middle Early Carboniferous.

References

• Saunders et al., 1999; Evolution of Complexity in Paleozoic Ammonoid Sutures, Supplementary Material; Science Mag. [1]
• The Paleobiology Database accessed on 10/01/07