Baculina

Baculina is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the ancylocerid family Bochianitidae. Baculina is known from the Valanginian of the Lower Cretaceous.

Baculina
Temporal range: Valanginian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Family: Bochianitidae
Genus: Baculina
d'Orbigny, 1850
Type species
Baculina rouyana
d'Orbigny, 1850

References

  • Arkell et al., 1957, Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press; R. C. Moore (ed)
  • Classification of J. Klein et al. 2007
  • J. Klein, et al. . 2007. Lower Cretaceous Ammonites III. Bochianitoidea, Protancyloceratoidea, Ancyloceratoidea, Ptychoceratoidea. Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia 144:


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