Barremitinae

Barremitinae is a subfamily belonging to the Ammonoidea subclass.[3][4][5] Whorl section in this group ranges from more or less circular through rectangular to oxyconic. Ribbing, if present, is weak. Suture is relatively simple, without markedly retracted suspensive lobe.

Barremitinae
Temporal range: Valanginian–Barremian[1]
Barremites difficilis hemiptychus, Kilian, 1913 found in Brestak, Varna (region), preserved at the Museum of Paleontology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Family:
Desmoceratidae
Subfamily:
Barremitinae

Genera[2]

This animal lived during the Lower Cretaceous, from Upper Valanginian to Upper Barremian.

Distribution

It has been recorded from Morocco, Spain (Granada, Murcia, Jaén), France (Provence), Italy,[6] Austria,[7] Hungary, Slovakia,[8] Bulgaria,[9] Georgia, Oregon, United States, Trinidad and Tobago, Japan, and Egypt.[4][10][11]

References
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. "Paleobiology Database - Barremitinae". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  3. St Breskovski (1977), "Sur la classification de la famille Desmoceratidae, Zittel, 1895 (Ammonoidea, Crétacé)", C. R. Acad. bul. sci, 30, 6: 891-4
  4. Wright, C. W. with Callomon, J.H. and Howarth, M.K. (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised , Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et el. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, at 69.
  5. Jaap KLEIN & Zdenĕk VAŠÍČEK, (2011), Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia, Lower Cretaceous Ammonites V Desmoceratoidea, Pars 148, Weikersheim, Germany: Backhuys Publishers Margraf Publishers, 2-65.
  6. Fabrjzio Cecca, Paolo Faraoni, Agostino Marini (1998) "Latest Hauterivian (Early Cretaceous) ammonites from Umbria-Marche Apennines (Central Italy)", Palaeontographia Italica, 85, 61-110, Pisa, Aprile 1998.
  7. Alexander LUKENEDER (2001), "Siphuncle Structures in Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) Ammonites from Austria", Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 102A, 69-83.
  8. Vašíček, Zdeněk (2002); "Lower Cretaceous Ammonoidea in the Podbranč quarry (Pieniny Klippen Belt, Slovakia)" Bulletin of the Czech Geological Survey, Vol. 77, No. 3, 187–200.
  9. Natalia Dimitrova (1967), Fosilite na Bulgaria. IV. Dolna Kreda - Glavonogi [Fossils of Bulgaria. IV. Lower Crateceous - Cephalopoda (Nautiloidea & Ammonoidea)], Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 424 p., 93 pl. (In Bulgarian with French summary).
  10. Barremitinae at Paleobiology database, retrieved on July 6, 2012.
  11. Luc Georges Bulot, Jean-Luis Latil, Jean Vermuelen, Mohamed Fouad Aly (2011), "Mogharaceras priscum (Douvillé, 1916) a peculiar Barremian ammonite (Desmoceratoidea, Barremitinae) from Northern Sinai (Egypt)", Geologica Carpathica Archived August 5, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, December 2011, 62, 6.
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