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
• Walter C. Sweet, 1964. Nautiloidea - Oncocerida. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology , Part K, 1964.

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