Baculites
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.
| Baculites Temporal range: Upper Cretaceous to Lower Paleocene | |
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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 Lamarck, 1801 vide Meek, 1876 | |
| Species | |
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