Maximites

{{Short description|Extinct genus of molluscs}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Bashkirian|Kasimovian|Atokan to Missourian}} | image = | image_caption = | display_parents = 2 | parent_authority = Ruzhencev 1960 | taxon = Maximites | authority = Miller and Furnish, 1957 }}

'''''Maximites''''' is a genus of Late Carboniferous ammonoids. Adult specimens were the smallest known ammonoids, only at about {{cvt|1|cm}} in diameter of shells.<ref>{{cite web|author=Nishiguchi, M.K., R. Mapes|date=2008|url= https://bobtailsquid.ink/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Nish2008_Book_PhylEvolMolusca_Cephlopoda.pdf|title=Cephalopoda|work=University of California Press|pages=163–199}}</ref> Fossils are found in various Late Carboniferous marine strata in North America. ''Maximites'' is the sole genus of '''Maximitidae''', one of two families of the Superfamily Pseudohaloritoidea, an important subgroup of the order Goniatitida.

==See also== * Smallest organisms

==References== {{Reflist}} * [https://www.paleodb.org The Paleobiology Database] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001114925/http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl |date=2007-10-01 }} accessed on 10/01/07

Category:Pseudohaloritoidea Category:Goniatitida genera Category:Carboniferous cephalopods Category:Ammonites of North America Category:Paleozoic life of Nunavut