Baculites
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Baculites is an extinct genus of heteromorph ammonite cephalopods with almost straight shells. The genus, which lived worldwide throughout most of the Late Cretaceous, and which briefly survived the K-Pg mass extinction event, was named by Lamarck in 1799.[3][4]
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Baculites fossils from South Dakota. Some still have traces of the original nacre (shells). | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
Family: | †Baculitidae |
Genus: | †Baculites Lamarck, 1799 |
Type species | |
†Baculites vertebralis | |
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