Bacchites

Bacchites Temporal range: Middle Triassic (Carnian)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Order:	Ceratitida
Superfamily:	Tropitoidea
Family:	Juvavitidae
Genus:	Bacchites Smith, 1927

Bacchites is a genus of extinct ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the ceratitid family Juvavitidae.

Bacchites, named by Smith, 1927, has a subspherical shell with the closed umbilicus, the surface of which is almost smooth except for faint transverse ribs, vestigial constrictions, and a faint threadlike keel. The suture is ammonitic. This genus, previously included in the Haloritidae, was removed to the Jovavitidae, established by Tozer, 1971, which is based on the genus Jovites . Both families are included in the Tropicaceae.

Bacchites has been found in upper Middle Triassic (Carnian) age sediments in the Alps, Timor, and California.

References

• Arkel et al., Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press; R. C. Moore (ed)
• Bacchites -PaleoDB