Baculites Lamarck 1799 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae

Synonym: Euhomaloceras Spath 1926

Parent taxon: Baculitidae according to J. W. M. Jagt et al. 2019

See also Ahmad et al. 2015, Atabekyan and Khakimov 1976, Benavides-Caceres 1956, Brunnschweiler 1966, Cobban and Hook 1983, Cobban and Kennedy 1992, Förster 1975, Henderson 1970, Henderson et al. 1992, Ifrim et al. 2015, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1993, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy and Christennsen 1993, Kennedy and Christensen 1991, Kennedy and Cobban 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy and Cobban 1994, Kennedy and Cobban 1996, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy et al. 2007, Kennedy et al. 1992, Kennedy et al. 1973, Kennedy et al. 2001, Kennedy and Summesberger 1987, Klinger 1985, Machalski et al. 2012, Matsumoto 1959, Morozumi 1985, Reyment 1955, Sepkoski 2002, Shigeta 2016, Summesberger 1979, Summesberger 1992, Szives 2007, Ward and Kennedy 1993 and Wright 1979

Sister taxa: Baculitinae, Boehmoceras, Eubaculites, Eubaculitinae, Fresvillia, Lechites, Pseudobaculites, Sciponoceras, Trachybaculites, Tuberosciponoceras

Subtaxa: Baculites ambatryensis Baculites anceps Baculites annulatus Baculites aquilaensis Baculites argentinicus Baculites asper Baculites asperiformis Baculites baculus Baculites bailyi Baculites boulei Baculites brevicosta Baculites capensis Baculites chicoensis Baculites claviformis Baculites clinolobatus Baculites cobbani Baculites codyensis Baculites compressus Baculites crickmayi Baculites cuneatus Baculites eliasi Baculites fairbanksi Baculites fuchsi Baculites gilberti Baculites grandis Baculites gregoryensis Baculites haresi Baculites huenickeni Baculites incurvatus Baculites inornatus Baculites jenseni Baculites kirki Baculites klingeri Baculites knorrianus Baculites lechitides Baculites leopoliensis Baculites lomaensis Baculites mariasensis Baculites mclearni Baculites meeki Baculites minerensis Baculites nugssuaqensis Baculites obtusus Baculites occidentalis Baculites ovatus Baculites perplexus Baculites pseudovatus Baculites rectus Baculites reesidei Baculites rex Baculites rugosus Baculites schenki Baculites scotti Baculites subanceps Baculites subcircularis Baculites tanakai Baculites taylorensis Baculites undatus Baculites undulatus Baculites vaalsensis Baculites valognensis Baculites vertebralis Baculites yokoyamai

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Type: Baculites vertebralis

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Paleocene of United States (3: Alabama, Texas collections)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of Angola (8), Antarctica (11), Argentina (7), Australia (2), Austria (3), Belgium (7), Brazil (1), Cameroon (1), Canada (45: Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatachewan, Saskatchewan), Chile (14), Denmark (7), Egypt (9), France (45), Germany (13), Greenland (6), Haiti (2), India (1), Japan (27), Jordan (11), Mexico (7), Mozambique (3), the Netherlands (8), New Zealand (14), Nigeria (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (16), Spain (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (20), Tajikistan (2), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (637: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (2), Venezuela (1)

Total: 952 collections including 1111 occurrences

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