Bevahites
Bevahites Temporal range:
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Class: | Cephalopoda
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Genus: | Bevahites Collignon, 1948
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Bevahites is a Cretaceous ammonite with an evolute, ribbed, tuberculate, and keeled shell with a squarish to compressed whorl section.
Bevahites is a member of the subfamily Texanitinae as well as of the Acanthocerataceae and has been found in Upper Santonian to middle Campanian sediments in southern Africa and Madagascar.
, , and are among related genera.
References[]
- Notes
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ "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.
Categories:
- Cretaceous ammonites
- Cretaceous animals of Africa
- Santonian genus first appearances
- Campanian genus extinctions
- Ammonite stubs