Balearites

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

Balearites
Temporal range: Hauterivian[1]
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Scientific classification
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

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.

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

Species

Species within the genus Balearites include:[2]

  • B. angulicostatiformis Hoedemaker, 2013[3]
  • B. balearis Nolan, 1894
  • B. binelli Astier, 1851
  • B. catulloi Parona, 1898
  • B. ibizensis Wiedmann, 1962
  • B. nolani Sarkar, 1955
  • B. nowaki Sarkar, 1955
  • B. krenkeli Sarkar, 1955 (= B. montclusensis Wiedmann, 1962)
  • B. labrousseae Sarkar, 1955
  • B. lorioli Dimitrova, 1967
  • B. michalíki Vašíček & Malek, 2017
  • B. mortilleti Pictet & Loriol, 1858
  • B. oicasensis Hoedemaker, 2013[3]
  • B. pseudothurmanii Dimitrova, 1967
  • B. rotundatus Sarkar, 1955[3]
  • B. shankariae Sarkar, 1955
  • B. theodomirensis Hoedemaker, 2013[3]

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. 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. 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.
Bibliography
  • Arkell, W. J. et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L, Mollusca 4. 1957.


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