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.
| Beatites Temporal range: Early Triassic
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| Genus: | Beatites Artharber 1911
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References edit
- 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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