''Homerites'' is a genus of small, involute, globase fossil
ceratitids with an eccentric outer whorl and subammonitic sutures belonging to the family
Halortidae The body chamber has a slight central keel and radial
dichotomous
A dichotomy is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets). In other words, this couple of parts must be
* jointly exhaustive: everything must belong to one part or the other, and
* mutually exclusive: nothing can belong simult ...
ribs that commonly terminate at spines on the ventral shoulder. ''Homerites'', described and named by Mojsisovics in 1893 has been found in the Upper
Triassic
The Triassic ( ) is a geologic period and system (stratigraphy), system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.36 ...
(Carnian) of California and the Alps. The Halortidae in which it is placed is part of the superfamily
Tropitaceae.
References
* Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L -Ammonoidea, pp 169–175; Geological Society of America, 1957,
Ceratitida genera
Triassic ammonites
Ammonites of North America
Carnian genera
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