Badiotites
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Badiotites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus belonging to the ceratitid
Ceratitida
The Ceratitida is an order that contains almost all ammonoid cephalopod genera from the Triassic as well as ancestral forms from the Upper Permian, the exception being the phylloceratids which gave rise to the great diversity of post Triassic ammonites....

 family, Badiotitidae. It was previously included with Lecanites
Lecanites
Lecanites is a ceratitid genus assigned to the Danubitaceae, with an essentially smooth, evolote, discoidal shell and a goniatitic suture with many elements. It is the type and now only genus of the Lecanitidae....

in the Lecanitidae, a family formerly of the Clydonitaceae
Clydonitaceae
The Clydonitaceae is a superfamily in the ammonoid cephalopod order Ceratitida characterized by generally costate and turberculate shells with smooth, grooved, or keeled venters and sutures that are commonly ceratitic or ammonitic but goniatic in a few offshoots.-Taxonomy:The Clydonitaceae unites...

 but re-assigned by Tozer (1981) to the Danubitaceae
Danubitaceae
AmmonoideaThe Danubitaceae is a large and diverse superfamily in the Order Ceratitida of the Ammonoidea that combines five families removed from the Ceratitaceae, Clydonitaceae, and Ptychitaceae.- Taxonomy:Superfamily Danubitaceae* Fam. Aplococeratidae...

. The Badiotitidae is included in the Ceratitaceae
Ceratitaceae
The Ceratitaceae is a superfamily in the ammonoid cephalopod order Ceratitida characterised in general by highly ornamented or tuberculate shells with ceratitic sutures that may become goniatitic or ammonitic s some offshoots....

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Badiotites is evolute, compressed, and discoidal, with sigmoidal ribs, an acutely rounded venter, and a goniatitic suture. It differs from Lecanites in that Lecanites is essentially smooth.

Badiotites comes from the Middle and Upper Triassic of the Alps, Greece, Hungary., Nepal, and British Columbia

References

  • Arkell et al, 1957, Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press; R. C. Moore (ed)
  • Badiotites -PaleoDB
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