''Velebites'' is a genus of middle

Triassic The Triassic ( ; sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya. The Triassic is t ...

ammonites from the Balkans belonging to the

Aplococeratidae Aplococeratidae is a family of Ceratitida, ceratitids from the Middle Triassic with very simplified sutures and a tendency to lose their ornamentation. Shells are generally evolute, more or less compressed, with rounded venters. Ornamentation if ...

, a family within the

Ceratitida 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 ammon ...

. It is somewhat similar to '' Aplococeras'' in external form. The shell is evolute, discoidal with convex converging whorl sides and rounded venter. Ribs are more recurved than in ''Aplococeras'' and the suture is ceratitic rather than goniatitic.

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Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology The ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,'' published from 1953–2007 by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas, then 2009–present by the University of Kansas Paleontological Institute, is a definitive multi-authore ...

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