Beatites

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Beatites
Temporal range: Early Triassic
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Beatites

Artharber 1911

Beatites is a genus of Lower Triassic ammonites characterized by a somewhat strongly involute and greatly compressed shell with a sharp, oxyconic, venter. Beatites was first found in Albania and is assigned to the ceratatiid family Hedenstroemiidae.

References[]

  • Arkell, W.J, et al, 1957. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology; Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
  • List of Cephalopod genera, J.J. Sepkoski. [1]


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