Baschkirites

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Baschkirites
Temporal range: Bashkirian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Order:
Goniatitida
Superfamily:
Dimorphocerataceae
Family:
Genus:
Baschkirites

Librovitch, 1957
Species[2]

None cataloged

Baschkirites is an extinct

Early Carboniferous (Bashkirian).[1]

Description

The shell of Baschkirites is discoidal, with narrow umbilicus in adult stage. Growth lines are fine, forward slanting, resulting in long ventrolateral salients (protrusions). The entire shell may be covered with simple and sometimes granose spiral ornamentation. Ventral lobe of the suture is wide and V-shaped, with moderately high median saddle; the first lateral saddle is rounded or subacute, the adventitious lobe deep and acute.

Distribution

Carboniferous of the Russian Federation, United States, Uzbekistan [2]

References

Notes
  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ^ a b "Paleobiology Database - Bashkirites". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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