Benueites Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | † Ammonoidea |
Order: | † Ammonitida |
Family: | † Acanthoceratidae |
Subfamily: | † Acanthoceratinae |
Genus: | †
Benueites Reyment, 1954 |
Species [1] | |
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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.
Cretaceous of Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia ( Loma Gorda Formation, Aipe, Huila), [3] Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela [1]