Balearites
| Balearites Temporal range: Hauterivian[1] | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ancyloceratida |
| Family: | Crioceratidae |
| Genus: | Balearites Sarkar 1954 |
| Species [2] | |
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Balearites is an extinct ancylocerid genus included in the family Crioceratidae, subclass Ammonoidea, from the Lower Cretaceous.
The shell, or conch, of Balearites is planispiral; whorls compressed, fairly flat sided, barely in contact (sub-gyroconic); venter (outer rim) rounded; ribs fine,flexious, branching equally in 2s, 3s, or 4s from weak umbilical tubercles.
Genera assumed to be related include Aegocrioceras, Crioceratites, and Hoplocrioceras.
Distribution
Cretaceous of Czechoslovakia, France and USSR [2]
References
- Notes
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- 1 2 "Paleobiology Database - Balearites". Retrieved 2014-05-30.
- Bibliography
- Arkell, W.J, et al, 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L, Mollusca 4. 1957.
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