''Badiotites'' is a genus of extinct

ammonoid 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 cuttlefish) ...

cephalopods belonging to the

ceratitid 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 ammoni ...

family Badiotitidae. It was previously included with '' Lecanites'' in the Lecanitidae, a family formerly of the

Clydonitaceae Clydonitoidea, formerly 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 ammon ...

but reassigned by Tozer (1981) to the

Danubitaceae The Danubitoidea 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 Danubitoidea * Family Aplococeratidae ...

. The Badiotitidae is included in the

Ceratitaceae Ceratitoidea, formerly Ceratitaceae, is an ammonite superfamily in order Ceratitida characterized in general by highly ornamented or tuberculate shells with ceratitic sutures that may become goniatitic or ammonitic in some offshoots. (Arkell ' ...

. ''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 The ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology'' (or ''TIP'') published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, is a definitive multi-authored work of some 50 volumes, written by more than 300 paleontologists, and co ...

, Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press; R. C. Moore (ed)
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