Bassleroceras [SEP] parent taxon
Bassleroceras
Bassleroceras is an elongate upwardly curved, exogastric, genus with the venter on the under side more sharply rounded than the dorsum on the upper. The siphuncle is ventral, composed of thick-walled tubular segments in which connection rings thicken in towardly as in both the Ellesmerocerida and primitive Tarphycerida.
"Bassleroceras" is the type genus of the Bassleroceratidae which Furnish and Glenister (1964) included in the Ellesmerocerida, but which Flower (1967) placed in the Tarphycerida. "Bassleroceras" gave rise to the Tarphycerida (
" Basidechenella"
- †" Basidechenella rowi"
- †" Basilicus"
- †" Basilicus barrandi"
- †" Basilicus whittingtoni"
- †" Bassleridiscus" – type locality for genus
- †" Bassleridiscus mohawkensis" – type locality for species
- †" Bassleroceras"
- †" Bassleroceras beekmanense"
- †" Bassleroceras champlainense" – type locality for species
- †" Bassleroceras kirbyi"
- †" Bassleroceras microscopium"
- †" Bassleroceras perseus"