Bacchites
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Class: | Cephalopoda
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Family: | Juvavitidae
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Genus: | Bacchites Smith, 1927
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Bacchites is a genus of extinct ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the ceratitid family Juvavitidae.
Bacchites, named by Smith, 1927, has a subspherical shell with the closed umbilicus, the surface of which is almost smooth except for faint transverse ribs, vestigial constrictions, and a faint threadlike keel. The suture is ammonitic. This genus, previously included in the Haloritidae, was removed to the Jovavitidae, established by Tozer, 1971, which is based on the genus . Both families are included in the Tropicaceae.
Bacchites has been found in upper Middle Triassic (Carnian) age sediments in the Alps, Timor, and California.
References[]
- Arkel et al., Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press; R. C. Moore (ed)
- Bacchites -PaleoDB
Categories:
- Tropitaceae
- Ceratitida genera
- Triassic ammonites
- Ammonites of Europe
- Carnian genera
- Ceratitida stubs