| Beatites Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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| Subfamily: | Aspenitinae |
| Genus: | 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.
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