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Baculitidae

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1871Baculitidae Gill
1952Baculitidae Wright
1966Baculitidae Brunnschweiler p. 22
1970Baculitidae Henderson p. 23
1975Baculitidae Förster p. 163
1978Baculitidae Cooper p. 70
1979Baculitidae Summesberger p. 113
1979Baculitidae Wright p. 285
1984Baculitidae Kennedy p. 142
1985Baculitidae Klinger p. 5
1988Baculitidae Kennedy and Cobban p. 608
1990Baculitidae Henderson p. 129
1991Baculitidae Casadío and Leanza p. 30
1991Baculitidae Kennedy and Christensen p. 217
1992Baculitidae Cobban and Kennedy p. 82
1992Baculitidae Kennedy et al. p. 275
1992Baculitidae Summesberger p. 123
1993Baculitidae Kennedy p. 109
1993Baculitidae Kennedy and Christennsen p. 152
1993Baculitidae Klinger and Kennedy p. 187
1993Baculitidae Ward and Kennedy p. 51
1994Baculitidae Kennedy p. 234
1995Baculitidae Kennedy p. 431
1996Baculitidae Kennedy and Cobban p. 802
1997Baculitidae Kennedy et al. p. 11
2000Baculitidae Arkadiev et al. p. 119
2003Baculitidae Landman and Cobban p. 21
2005Baculitidae Kennedy p. 408
2007Baculitidae Kennedy et al. p. 526
2007Baculitidae Kennedy and Latil p. 471
2007Baculitidae Szives p. 116
2008Baculitidae Kennedy et al. p. 46
2008Baculitidae Kennedy et al. p. 133
2012Baculitidae Machalski et al. p. 731
2013Baculitidae Kennedy p. 650
2015Baculitidae Ahmad et al. p. 250
2015Baculitidae Ifrim et al. p. 234
2015Baculitidae Kennedy and Gale p. 519
2016Baculitidae Shigeta p. 346
2018Baculitidae Kennedy and Morris p. 99
2019Baculitidae 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
familyBaculitidaeGill 1871

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.

Fm. †Baculitidae Gill 1871
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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]
G. †Boehmoceras Riedel 1931
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†Boehmoceras arculus Morton 1834
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Invalid names: Boehmoceras loescheri Riedel 1931 [synonym]
†Boehmoceras krekeleri Wegner 1905
G. †Eubaculites Spath 1926
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†Eubaculites carinatus Morton 1834
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Invalid names: Baculites lyelli d'Orbigny 1847 [synonym], Eubaculites kossmati Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym], Eubaculites multicostatus Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym]
†Eubaculites latecarinatus Brunnschweiler 1966
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Invalid names: Giralites quadrisulcatus Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym]
†Eubaculites ootacodensis Stoliczka 1866
†Eubaculites simplex Kossmat 1895
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Invalid names: Cardabites scimitar Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym], Cardabites tabulatus Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym], Eubaculiceras compressum Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym], Eubaculiceras fastigiatum Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym]
†Eubaculites vagina Forbes 1846
Invalid names: Cardabites Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym], Eubaculiceras Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym], Giralites Brunnschweiler 1966 [synonym]
G. †Fresvillia Kennedy 1986
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†Fresvillia constricta Kennedy 1986
†Fresvillia teres Forbes 1846
G. †Lechites Nowak 1908
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Subg. †Lechites (Lechites) Nowak 1908
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†Lechites (Lechites) gaudini Pictet and Campiche 1861
†Lechites (Lechites) moreti Breistroffer 1936
G. †Pseudobaculites Cobban 1952
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†Pseudobaculites nodosus Cobban 1952
G. †Sciponoceras Hyatt 1894
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†Sciponoceras baculoides Mantell 1822
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Invalid names: Cyrtochilus major Anderson 1958 [synonym]
†Sciponoceras bohemicum Fritsch 1872
†Sciponoceras cucullatum Collignon 1964
†Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860
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Invalid names: Cyrtochilus stylus Anderson 1958 [synonym]
†Sciponoceras kossmati Nowak 1908
†Sciponoceras roto Cieslinski 1959
Invalid names: Cyrtochilus Meek 1876 [replaced]
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†Trachybaculites columna Morton 1834
†Trachybaculites vicentei Stinnesbeck 1986
G. †Tuberosciponoceras Medina and Riccardi 2007
Invalid names: Baculitinae Gill 1871 [empty], Eubaculitinae Brunnschweiler 1966 [empty]
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 2004, Kiessling 2003

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 (1224 total)

Oldest occurrences

Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Cretaceous145.0 - 66.0USA (Maryland) Baculites elisasi, Baculites baculus (125141)
Late/Upper Valanginian140.2 - 136.4South Africa Baculites sp. (82627)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Svalbard and Jan Mayen Baculites sp. (212965)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Switzerland Baculites baculoides (2237)
Albian113.0 - 100.5USA (Oregon) Lechites comanchensis (229463)
Albian113.0 - 100.5France Baculites sanctae-crucis (2166)
Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian112.03 - 105.3France Lechites gaudini (13499)
Early/Lower Albian - Late/Upper Albian112.03 - 99.6France Lechites gaudini (57922) Lechites sp., Lechites gaudini (58861)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Madagascar (Mahajanga) Cyrtochilus baculoides (98221)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Argentina (Santa Cruz) Tuberosciponoceras insolitum (74297 74298 74299)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Madagascar (Antsiranana) Lechites gaudini (98215)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6United Kingdom (England) Lechites sp., Lechites gaudini (82808)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Australia (Northern Territory) Lechites gaudini (70245) Sciponoceras sp., Lechites gaudini (70283)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Kazakhstan Lechites moreti (175008)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Belgium Lechites gaudini (174924)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6France Lechites gaudini (56527 56554 58126 58359 58527 174473 174474) Lechites moreti (174484 174485) Lechites sp. (56523 56669 56680 58122 58253 58363 58431) Lechites sp., Lechites gaudini (56674) Sciponoceras baculoides (57941)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6USA (Alaska) Sciponoceras sp. (88619)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Ukraine Lechites moreti (183295)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Italy Lechites italicus, Lechites gaudini, Lechites moreti (12838)
Late/Upper Albian105.3 - 99.6Turkmenistan Lechites gaudini (183302)