Baschkirites is an extinct cephalopod

Cephalopod

A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda . These exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head, and a set of arms or tentacles modified from the primitive molluscan foot...

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Genus

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 belonging to the ammonoid order Goniatitida that lived during the Early Carboniferous (Late Mississippian) for about 4 million years, from about 317 to 313 Ma.

Description

The shell of Baschkirites is discoidal, with narrow umbilicus in adult stage. Growth lines are fine, forward slanding, resulting in long ventrolateral salients (protrusions). The entire shell may be covered with simple and sometimes granose spiral ornamentation. Ventral lobe of the suture is wide and V-shaped, with moderately high median saddle; the first lateral saddle is rounded or subacute, the adventitious lobe deep and acute.