Alibashites Korn & Ghaderi

Korn, Dieter, Hairapetian, Vachik, Ghaderi, Abbas, Leda, Lucyna, Schobben, Martin & Akbari, Amir, 2021, The Changhsingian (Late Permian) ammonoids from Baghuk Mountain (Central Iran), European Journal of Taxonomy 776, pp. 1-106 : 71

Genus Alibashites Korn & Ghaderi in Korn et al., 2016

Type species

Xenodiscus ( Paratirolites ?) Mojsisovicsi Stoyanow, 1910, by original designation.

Included species

Alibashites ferdowsii Korn & Ghaderi in Korn et al., 2016; Xenodiscus ( Paratirolites ?) Mojsisovicsi Stoyanow, 1910; Alibashites uncinatus Korn & Ghaderi in Korn et al., 2016.

Diagnosis

Representatives of the family Dzhulfitidae with moderately large to large conch; maximum adult diameters 90 mm. Adult stage with subtrapezoidal or quadrate whorl profile. Subadult stage with large conical ventrolateral nodes, adult stage with weak ribs. Suture line with deep external lobe; depths of external lobe and adventive lobe nearly identical.

Remarks

Alibashites has an intermediate morphological position between Paratirolites and Abichites . It possesses the subadult sculpture with conical ventrolateral nodes of Paratirolites but lacks the trapezoidal whorl profile of that genus. Abichites has a similar adult conch morphology with a rectangular or subtrapezoidal whorl profile but does not possess the strong ventrolateral nodes developed in Alibashites .