Balkanites

Balkanites Temporal range: Triassic
Conservation status
Fossil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Order:	Ceratitida
Superfamily:	Ceratitaceae
Family:	Tirolitidae
Genus:	Balkanites Ganev 1966

Balkanites is a genus of extinct ammonites (s.l.), belonging to the ceratitid superfamily Ceratitacea and family Tirolitidae. It is restricted to the Triassic. As common to the family, the shell is evolute with lateral tubercles. The suture is not eleborate.

References

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