Baculitidae
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Baculitidae is a family of extinct ammonoid cephalopods that lived mostly during the Late Cretaceous, and often included in the suborder Ancyloceratina.[1]
Baculitid genera are characterized by a small to minute initial coil of about two whorls followed by a long straight or slightly curved shaft. Genera are distinguished on the basis of size, general shape, particulars of the suture, and ornamentation. They can reach lengths of Script error: No such module "convert". or more.[1]
Baculitids are found worldwide in deposits from the upper Albian to the Danian ages.[1] Related families are the Anisoceratidae, Diplomoceratidae, Hamitidae, Nostoceratidae, and Turrilitidae; all of which along with the Baculitidae are included in the superfamily Turrilitoidea.[2]
Genera included in the family:[3]
- Baculites
- Boehmoceras
- Eubaculites
- Fresvillia
- Lechites
- Pseudobaculites
- Sciponoceras
- Trachybaculites
- Tuberosciponoceras
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