Buchites

Systematic Paleontology

Order: Ceratitida

Superfamily: Clydonitaceae

Family: Buchitidae Genus: Buchites

Buchites is a ceratitid ammonite genus from the upper Triassic and type for the Buchitidae. The shell is evolute with a rounded venter, being coiled with all whorls exposed, and covered with flexious ribs that either end at a smooth ventral band along the outer rim or cross over the venter itself.