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Baculites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1799Baculites Lamarck
1926Euhomaloceras Spath p. 80
1955Baculites Reyment p. 15
1956Baculites Benavides-Caceres p. 437
1959Baculites Matsumoto p. 100
1959Euhomaloceras Matsumoto p. 100
1966Baculites Brunnschweiler p. 23
1970Baculites Henderson p. 23
1973Baculites Kennedy et al. p. 100
1975Baculites Förster p. 168
1976Baculites Atabekyan and Khakimov p. 94
1979Baculites Summesberger p. 113
1979Baculites Wright p. 287
1983Baculites Cobban and Hook p. 7
1984Baculites Kennedy p. 142
1985Baculites Klinger p. 5
1985Baculites Morozumi p. 45
1987Baculites Kennedy and Summesberger p. 32
1988Baculites Kennedy and Cobban p. 608
1991Baculites Kennedy and Christensen p. 217
1992Baculites Cobban and Kennedy p. 82
1992Baculites Henderson et al. p. 162
1992Baculites Kennedy et al. p. 275
1992Baculites Summesberger p. 124
1993Baculites Kennedy p. 109
1993Baculites Kennedy and Christennsen p. 152
1993Baculites Kennedy and Cobban p. 424
1993Baculites Ward and Kennedy p. 51
1994Baculites Kennedy and Cobban p. 1297
1995Baculites Kennedy p. 431
1996Baculites Kennedy and Cobban p. 802
1997Baculites Kennedy et al. p. 11
2001Baculites Kennedy et al. p. 8
2002Baculites Sepkoski
2007Baculites Kennedy et al. p. 526
2007Baculites Szives p. 130
2012Baculites Machalski et al. p. 731
2015Baculites Ahmad et al. p. 250
2015Baculites Ifrim et al. p. 234
2016Baculites Shigeta p. 346
2019Baculites Jagt et al. p. 592

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyTurrilitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyBaculitidaeGill 1871
genusBaculitesLamarck 1799

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Baculites Lamarck 1799
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Baculites ambatryensis Collignon 1971
Baculites anceps Lamarck 1822
Baculites annulatus Conrad 1855
Baculites aquilaensis Reeside 1927
Baculites argentinicus Weaver 1927
Baculites asper Morton 1830
Baculites baculus Meek and Hayden 1861
Baculites bailyi Woods 1906
Baculites boulei Collignon 1931
Baculites brevicosta Schluter 1876
Baculites capensis Woods 1906
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Invalid names: Baculites buttensis Anderson 1958 [synonym]
Baculites chicoensis Trask 1856
Baculites claviformis Stephenson 1941
Baculites clinolobatus Elias 1933
Baculites cobbani Khakimov 1976
Baculites codyensis Reeside 1927
Baculites crickmayi Williams 1930
Baculites cuneatus Cobban 1962
Baculites eliasi Cobban 1958
Baculites fairbanksi Anderson 1902
Baculites fuchsi Redtenbacher 1873
Baculites gilberti Cobban 1962
Baculites grandis Hall and Meek 1854
Baculites gregoryensis Cobban 1951
Baculites haresi Reeside 1927
Baculites huenickeni Stinnesbeck 1986
Baculites incurvatus Dujardin 1837
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Invalid names: Baculites tuberculata d'Orbigny 1842 [synonym]
Baculites inornatus Meek 1862
Baculites jenseni Cobban 1962
Baculites kirki Matsumoto 1959
Baculites klingeri Cooper 2003
Baculites knorrianus Desmarest 1817
Baculites lechitides Brunnschweiler 1966
Baculites leopoliensis Nowak 1908
Baculites lomaensis Anderson 1958
Baculites mariasensis Cobban 1951
Baculites mclearni Russell and Landes 1937
Baculites meeki Elias 1933
Baculites minerensis Russell and Landes 1937
Baculites nugssuaqensis Birkelund 1965
Baculites obtusus Meek 1876
Baculites ovatus Say 1820
Baculites perplexus Cobban 1962
Baculites pseudovatus Elias 1933
Baculites rectus Marshall 1926
Baculites reesidei Elias 1933
Baculites rex Anderson 1958
Baculites rugosus Cobban 1962
Baculites schenki Matsumoto 1959
Baculites scotti Cobban 1958
Baculites subanceps Haughton 1925
Baculites subcircularis Anderson 1958
Baculites tanakai Matsumoto and Obata 1963
Baculites taylorensis Adkins 1929
Baculites undatus Stephenson 1941
Baculites undulatus d'Orbigny 1850
Baculites vaalsensis Kennedy and Jagt 1995
Baculites valognensis Böhm 1891
Baculites vertebralis Lamarck 1801
Baculites yokoyamai Tokunga and Shimizu 1926
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Invalid names: Baculites besairiei Collignon 1931 [synonym]
Invalid names: Euhomaloceras Spath 1926 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Valanginian to the top of the Early/Lower Paleocene or 140.20000 to 61.70000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 136.4 Ma

Collections (948 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Cretaceous145.0 - 66.0USA (Maryland) B. elisasi, B. baculus (125141)
Late/Upper Valanginian140.2 - 136.4South Africa B. sp. (82627)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Svalbard and Jan Mayen B. sp. (212965)
Albian113.0 - 100.5France B. sanctae-crucis (2166)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0USA (Texas) B. sp. (211326 225659 225660 225661 225662 225663 225668 225692)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0USA (California) B. capensis (225327) B. chicoensis (193032 215431 215434) B. sp. (185421 185496 185732 185733 206275) B. subcircularis (215575)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0Canada (British Columbia) B. chicoensis (88119)
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0Angola B. sp. (210893)
Early/Lower Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5USA (California) B. chicoensis (167599)
Late/Upper Cenomanian99.6 - 93.5Sweden B. sp. (70427)
Arowhanan - Haumurian95.2 - 66.0New Zealand (North Auckland) B. rectus (233890)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (New Mexico) B. sp. (82213)
Turonian93.9 - 89.8USA (California) B. chicoensis (44209) B. fairbanksi (44240 220370 221082) B. spp. (80937)
Turonian - Coniacian93.9 - 86.3USA (Wyoming) B. mariasensis (87757)
Turonian - Santonian93.9 - 83.6Angola B. anceps (83947) B. sp., B. anceps (83948)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (Colorado) B. yokoyamai (230902)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Romania B. sp., B. undulatus (73511)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (Arizona) B. calamus (55188)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3USA (New Mexico) B. yokoyamai (87805 87809)
Early/Lower Turonian93.5 - 89.3Tunisia B. yokoyamai (161151)