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Suborder:
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Goniatitina 
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Superfamily:
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Gonioloboceratoidea 
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Family:
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Gonioloboceratidae 
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Genus:
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Mescalites | 
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Qualifier:
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ge | 
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Author:
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	Furnish & Glenister 1971,p.92	 
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Lower Boundary:
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U   Virgilian--Asselian           [C--P], 299 million years
 
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Upper Boundary:
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Asselian--Sakmarian           [ASS--SAK], 294.6 million years
 
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