Balearites

Balearites is an extinct ancylocerid genus included in the family Crioceratitidae,

Balearites
subclass Ammonoidea, from the Upper Hauterivian.[2]
Temporal range: Hauterivian [1]

The shell, or conch, ofBalearites is planispiral; whorls compressed, fairly flat sided,
Pre OS D C P T J K Pg N
barely in contact (sub-gyroconic); venter (outer rim) rounded; ribs fine,flexious,
branching equally in 2s, 3s, or 4s from weak umbilical tubercles. Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Genera assumed to be related include Aegocrioceras, Crioceratites, and
Hoplocrioceras. Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Species Subclass: Ammonoidea
Species within the genusBalearites include:[2] Order: Ammonitida

B. angulicostatiformis Hoedemaker, 2013[3] Suborder: Ancyloceratina

B. balearis Nolan, 1894 Family: Crioceratitidae
B. binelli Astier, 1851
B. catulloi Parona, 1898 Genus: Balearites
B. ibizensis Wiedmann, 1962 Sarkar 1954
B. nolani Sarkar, 1955
B. nowaki Sarkar, 1955 Type species
B. krenkeli Sarkar, 1955 (= B. montclusensis Wiedmann, 1962) Crioceras baleare Nolan, 1894
B. labrousseae Sarkar, 1955
B. lorioli Dimitrova, 1967 Synonyms
B. mortilleti Pictet & Loriol, 1858
Binelliceras Sarkar, 1955
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"(http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?ta

xon=231&rank=class). Retrieved 2014-05-28.
2. Vermeulen (J.), Lazarin (P.), Lpinay (P.), Leroy (L.), Mascarelli (E.), Meister (C.) & Menkveld-Gfeller (U.), 2012 -
Ammonites (Ancyloceratina, Turrilitina) nouvelles ou peu connues de l'Hauterivien suprieur . 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
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1954 and C.(Binelliceras) Sarkar, 1977 (Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea)." Rev Palob 32 (2013): 1-209.
 4. Borza, K., Michalk, J., Gaparkov, V., & Vaek, Z. (1984). The biostratigraphy of the Hauterivian/Barremian
Boundary Beds in the Krna 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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