Voehringerites Manger, 1971

Korn, Dieter & Weyer, Dieter, 2023, The ammonoids from the Gattendorfia Limestone of Oberrödinghausen (Early Carboniferous; Rhenish Mountains, Germany), European Journal of Taxonomy 882, pp. 1-230 : 111

Genus Voehringerites Manger, 1971

Type species

Karagandoceras peracutum Vöhringer, 1960: 166 ; original designation.

Genus diagnosis

Genus of the subfamily Voehringeritinae with discoidal conch and high coiling rate (WER ~2.15); inner whorls evolute. Ornament with nearly straight growth lines.

Genus composition

Only the type species.

Remarks

Voehringerites is the oldest Carboniferous genus with a subdivided external lobe; it is easily distinguished from the other genera of the early Tournaisian in the Rhenish Mountains by this character. In the absence of the suture line, it could be confused with Acutimitoceras ucatum sp. nov., but this species has very coarse growth lines and an acute but less sharp venter.