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TaxNo: 5196Genus Mescalites
Suborder: Goniatitina
Superfamily: Gonioloboceratoidea
Family: Gonioloboceratidae
Genus: Mescalites
Qualifier: ge
Author: Furnish & Glenister 1971,p.92
Lower Boundary: U Virgilian--Asselian [C--P], 299 million years
Upper Boundary: Asselian--Sakmarian [ASS--SAK], 294.6 million years
     1971  Mescalites Furnish & Glenister: 92.
     1980  Mescalites.-Kullmann & Ramovs: 198.
     1990  Mescalites.- Glenister, Baker, Furnish & Thomas: 397.
     2002  Mescalites.-Leonova: S42.

Type species: Gonioloboceras discoidale Böse, 1920, p.52 [OD].
     
A-E: Conch form like Gonioloboceras, but with weak furrow on ventral side; umbilicus covered by a callus at maturity.
G:   Suture like Gonioloboceras, but at maturity with small additional ventral element close to siphuncle.
    
 Sutural formula: [Germ.] (E1E2EmE2E1)ALUI,  [Russ.] (V1V2V2V1)LU:ID.