Balashovia
Appearance
Balashovia Temporal range: Eifelian
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Genus: | Balashovia
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Balashovia is a genus of oncocerid nautiloids from the Middle Devonian, (lower Eifelian), included in the Archiacoceratidae, a family characterized by compressed, exogastric, cyrtocones with a large, actinosiphonate, dorsal siphuncle.
References
[edit]- The Paleobiology Database Balashovia entry accessed 8/21/12
- Sepkoski J.J. List of Cephalopod Genera [1]
- Walter C. Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea - Oncocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K, 1964.