Balearites

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Balearites
Temporal range: Hauterivian [1]
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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

BinellicerasSarkar, 1955

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

Contents

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]

Related Research Articles

The Hauterivian is, in the geologic timescale, an age in the Early Cretaceous Epoch or a stage in the Lower Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 132.9 ± 2 Ma and 129.4 ± 1.5 Ma. The Hauterivian is preceded by the Valanginian and succeeded by the Barremian.

<i>Abrytasites</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Abrytasites (Abrytusites) is an extinct genus of cephalopods belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass. The genus was named after the ancient Roman town of Abrittus, located near the present Bulgarian city of Razgrad. There are several described species of Abrytasites, including A. thieuloyi, A. julianyi, and A. neumayri. They are inflated, with constrictions, have rather thick ribs springing irregularly, singly or in pairs, from umbilical bullae. Their inner whorls closely resemble types species of Valdedorsella. This animal lived 125–136.4 million years ago during the Hauterivian and the Barremian in Europe and western Africa.

<i>Australiceras</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Australiceras is an extinct ammonite genus from the upper part of the Early Cretaceous, Aptian stage, included in the family Ancyloceratidae.

<i>Anahoplites</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Anahoplites is a genus of rather involute, compressed hoplitid ammonites with flat sides, narrow flat or grooved venters, and flexious ribs or striae arising from weak umbilicle tubercles that end in fine dense ventrolateral nodes. The elements of their sutures are short, wide and jaggedy. Specimens of Annahoplites have diameters typically in the range of 4–6 centimetres (1.6–2.4 in) although some with diameters of as much as 19 centimetres (7.5 in) have been reported. The genus lived during the Cretaceous, from the Middle to the late Albian.

<i>Aspidoceras</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Aspidoceras is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Aspidoceratidae.

Barremites is an ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the family Desmoceratidae, that lived during the Hauterivian and Barremian stages of the Early Cretaceous. Its shell is moderately to very involute, with the outer whorl strongly embracing the inner whorls, and variably compressed. Sides are generally smooth and marked with sinuous or falcate collars marking intervals of growth and bearing feeble striae to moderately distinguished ribs.

<i>Crioceratites</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Crioceratites is an ammonite genus from the Early Cretaceous belonging to the Ancyloceratoidea.

Neolissoceras is a genus of haploceratid ammonites with a smooth, compressed, flat-sided shell with a flatly rounded venter and distinct umbilical margin, from the Upper Jurassic (Tithonian) - Lower Cretaceous (Hauterivian) of southern Europe, Madagascar, and India.

Bochianites is a straight shelled ammonite which lived from the Upper Jurassic, Tithonian, to the Lower Cretaceous, Hauterivian in what is now Europe, Greenland, Africa, North America and Asia. The shell is long, narrow, moderately expanding; smooth or with weak to strong oblique annular ribs. Sutural elements are short and boxy. The umbilical lobe, which lies between the lateral lobe and dorsal lobe, on either side, is about the same size as the lobule dividing the first lateral saddle.

Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski

Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski was a Bulgarian paleontologist.

Barremitinae

Barremitinae is a subfamily belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass. Whorl section in this group ranges from more or less circular through rectangular to oxyconic. Ribbing, if present, is weak. Suture is relatively simple, without markedly retracted suspensive lobe.

The Crioceratidae constitute a family of loosely to closely coiled Ammonitida included in the Ancyloceratoidea that lived during the Early Cretaceous; characterized by Crioceratites and other genera such as Hoplocrioceras and Paracrioceras.

Lytoceratinae Extinct subfamily of molluscs

Lytoceratinae is a subfamily of ammonoid cephalopods that make up part of the family Lytoceratidae.

<i>Neocomites</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Neocomites is a genus of ammonite from the Lower Cretaceous, Berriasian to Hauterivian, and type genus for the Neocomitidae.

<i>Spitidiscus</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Spitidiscus is a genus of ammonites placed in the family Holcodiscidae.

<i>Pseudothurmannia</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Pseudothurmannia is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the family Crioceratitidae of the ammonitid superfamily Ancylocerataceae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous period, from Hauterivian age to Barremian age.

Crioceratitidae Extinct family of molluscs

Crioceratitidae is an extinct cephalopod family belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the order Ammonitida.

<i>Olcostephanus</i> Genus of molluscs (fossil)

Olcostephanus is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the family Olcostephanidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived during the Cretaceous, from the upper Valanginian to the lower Hauterivian age.

Damaisiceras is an extinct monospecific ancylocerid genus included in the family Crioceratitidae, subclass Ammonoidea, from the Upper Hauterivian, zone of Balearites balearis. Fossils belonging to this genera were found southeastern France.

References

Notes
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database" . Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 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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