Benueites
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Acanthoceratidae |
| Subfamily: | †Acanthoceratinae |
| Genus: | †Benueites Reyment, 1954 |
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Benueites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian),[2] named by Revment, 1954, included in the family Acanthoceratidae, superfamily Acanthoceratoidea.
Distribution[edit]
Cretaceous of Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia (Loma Gorda Formation, Aipe, Huila),[3] Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela [1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Paleobiology Database - Benueites". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ^ Patarroyo, 2011, p.69
Bibliography[edit]
- Patarroyo, Pedro. 2011. Sucesión de Amonitas del Cretácico Superior (Cenomaniano-Coniaciano) de la parte más alta de la Formación Hondita y de la Formación Loma Gorda en la Quebrada Bambucá, Aipe - Huila (Colombia). Boletín de Geología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia 33. 69-92. Accessed 2017-03-30.
Further reading[edit]
- W.J Arkell et al., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L (Ammonoidea)
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Categories:
- Ammonitida genera
- Acanthoceratidae
- Cretaceous ammonites
- Ammonites of Africa
- Cretaceous Africa
- Ammonites of South America
- Cretaceous Brazil
- Cretaceous Caribbean
- Cretaceous Colombia
- Cretaceous Venezuela
- Turonian life
- Turonian genus first appearances
- Turonian genus extinctions
- Fossil taxa described in 1954
- Ammonitina stubs