Benueites

Benueites Temporal range: Turonian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Family:	†Acanthoceratidae
Subfamily:	†Acanthoceratinae
Genus:	†Benueites Reyment, 1954
Species[1]
B. benueensis B. mosquerae B. reymenti B. trinidadensis

Benueites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian),[2] named by Revement, 1954, included in the family Acanthoceratidae, superfamily Acanthoceratoidea.

Distribution

Cretaceous of Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia (Loma Gorda Formation, Aipe, Huila),[3] Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela [1]

References

1. "Paleobiology Database - Benueites". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
2. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
3. Patarroyo, 2011, p.69

Bibliography

• 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)" (PDF), Boletín de Geología, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 33: 69–92, retrieved 2017-03-30

Further reading

• W.J Arkell et al., Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L (Ammonoidea)