Geology and Minerals

Baculites

Baculites is an extinct genus of heteromorph ammonite cephalopods with almost straight shells. The genus, which lived worldwide throughout most of the Late Cretaceous, and which briefly survived the K-Pg mass extinction event, was named by Lamarck in 1799.

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See also

• ▸1257 Samalas eruption
• ▸Dannemare Church
• ▸Diatomaceous earth

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