Balashovia

Balashovia Temporal range: Eifelian
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Nautiloidea
Order:	Oncocerida
Family:	Archiacoceratidae
Genus:	Balashovia

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

• 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.