''Balearites'' is an extinct ancyloceratin genus included in the family

Crioceratitidae Crioceratitidae is an extinct cephalopod family belonging to the subclass Ammonoidea and included in the order Ammonitida Ammonitida is an order of ammonoid cephalopods that lived from the Jurassic through Paleocene time periods, commonly wit ...

, subclass

Ammonoidea Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttl ...

, from the Upper Hauterivian. The shell, or conch, of ''Balearites'' is planispiral; whorls compressed, fairly flat sided, barely in contact (sub-gyroconic); venter (outer rim) rounded; ribs fine, flexuous, branching equally in 2s, 3s, or 4s from weak umbilical tubercles. Genera assumed to be related include '' Aegocrioceras'', '' Crioceratites'', and '' Hoplocrioceras''.

Species

Species within the genus ''Balearites'' include: *''Balearites angulicostatiformis'' Hoedemaker, 2013 *''Balearites balearis'' Nolan, 1894 *''Balearites binelli'' Astier, 1851 *''Balearites catulloi'' Parona, 1898 *''Balearites ibizensis'' Wiedmann, 1962 *''Balearites krenkeli'' Sarkar, 1955 (= ''B. montclusensis'' Wiedmann, 1962) *''Balearites labrousseae'' Sarkar, 1955 *''Balearites lorioli'' Dimitrova, 1967 *''Balearites michalíki'' Vašíček & Malek, 2017 *''Balearites mortilleti'' Pictet & Loriol, 1858 *''Balearites nolani'' Sarkar, 1955 *''Balearites nowaki'' Sarkar, 1955 *''Balearites oicasensis'' Hoedemaker, 2013 *''Balearites pseudothurmanii'' Dimitrova, 1967 *''Balearites rotundatus'' Sarkar, 1955 *''Balearites shankariae'' Sarkar, 1955 *''Balearites theodomirensis'' Hoedemaker, 2013

Distribution

Fossils belonging to this genera were found on localities that are now in Slovakia,Borza, K., Michalík, J., Gašparíkov, V., & Vašíček, Z. (1984). The biostratigraphy of the Hauterivian/Barremian Boundary Beds in the Krížna Nappe, Western Carpathians (Czechoslovakia). Cretaceous research, 5(4), 349-356. Austria, France,Vermeulen (J.), Lazarin (P.), Lépinay (P.), Leroy (L.), Mascarelli (E.), Meister (C.) & Menkveld-Gfeller (U.), 2012 - Ammonites (Ancyloceratina, Turrilitina) nouvelles ou peu connues de l'Hauterivien supérieur. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice, t. 27, p. 271-318 Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Italy, Bulgaria, Russia and Romania.Hoedemaeker, P. J. "Genus Pseudothurmannia Spath, 1923 and related subgenera Crioceratites (Balearites) Sarkar, 1954 and C.(Binelliceras) Sarkar, 1977 (Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea)." Rev Paléob 32 (2013): 1-209.

References

;Notes ;Bibliography * Arkell, W. J. ''et al.'', 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L, Mollusca 4. 1957. Crioceratitidae Ammonitida genera Cretaceous ammonites Fossils of France Hauterivian life Early Cretaceous ammonites of Europe {{Ammonitida-stub