†family Balatonitidae Spath 1951 (ceratite)

Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Balatonitidae

Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1951. Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part V, The Ammonoidea of the Trias (II) 1-228

Parent taxon: Ceratitoidea according to Y. Shigeta et al. 2010

See also Tozer 1981

Sister taxa: Badiotitidae, Ceratitidae, Dinaritidae, Hungaritidae, Rimkinitidae

Subtaxa: Augustaceras Balatonites Cuccoceras Ginsburgites Huishuites Platycuccoceras Robinsonites

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Austria (7 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5), Cambodia (1), Chile (1), China (11), Greece (2), Hungary (74), India (1), Israel (1), Italy (20), Japan (3), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Thailand (2), Turkey (8), United States (77: Nevada), Vietnam (4)

Total: 231 collections including 356 occurrences

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