Bevahites

Bevahites is a Cretaceous ammonite with an evolute, ribbed, tuberculate, and keeled shell with a squarish to compressed whorl section.

Bevahites
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Collignoniceratidae
Subfamily: †Texanitinae
Genus: †Bevahites
Collignon, 1948
Species[2]

None cataloged

Bevahites is a member of the collignoniceratid subfamily Texanitinae as well as of the Acanthoceratoidea and has been found in Upper Santonian to middle Campanian sediments in southern Africa and Madagascar.

Barrisioceras, Menabites, and Parabevahites are among related genera.

References
Notes
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. "Paleobiology Database - Pectinatites". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
Bibliography
  • Arkell, et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.


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