Balearites
Temporal range: Hauterivian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Suborder: †Ancyloceratina
Family: †Crioceratitidae
Genus: †Balearites
Sarkar 1954
Type species
Crioceras baleare
Nolan, 1894
Synonyms

Binelliceras Sarkar, 1955

Balearites is an extinct ancyloceratin genus included in the family Crioceratitidae, subclass Ammonoidea, from the Upper Hauterivian.[2]

The shell, or conch, of Balearites is planispiral; whorls compressed, fairly flat sided, barely in contact (sub-gyroconic); venter (outer rim) rounded; ribs fine, flexuous, branching equally in 2s, 3s, or 4s from weak umbilical tubercles.[citation needed]

Genera assumed to be related include Aegocrioceras, Crioceratites, and Hoplocrioceras.

Species

Species within the genus Balearites include:[2]

Distribution

Fossils belonging to this genera were found on localities that are now in Slovakia,[4] Austria,[3] France,[2] Spain,[2] Switzerland,[2] Hungary,[3] Italy,[3] Bulgaria,[3] Russia[3] and Romania.[3]

References

Notes
  1. ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ^ a b c d e Vermeulen (J.), Lazarin (P.), Lépinay (P.), Leroy (L.), Mascarelli (E.), Meister (C.) & Menkveld-Gfeller (U.), 2012 - Ammonites (Ancyloceratina, Turrilitina) nouvelles ou peu connues de l'Hauterivien supérieur. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice, t. 27, p. 271-318
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Hoedemaeker, P. J. "Genus Pseudothurmannia Spath, 1923 and related subgenera Crioceratites (Balearites) Sarkar, 1954 and C.(Binelliceras) Sarkar, 1977 (Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea)." Rev Paléob 32 (2013): 1-209.
  4. ^ Borza, K., Michalík, J., Gašparíkov, V., & Vašíček, Z. (1984). The biostratigraphy of the Hauterivian/Barremian Boundary Beds in the Krížna Nappe, Western Carpathians (Czechoslovakia). Cretaceous research, 5(4), 349-356.
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