Beatites
| Beatites Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
|---|---|
| Conservation status | |
| Fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ceratitida |
| Family: | Hedenstroemiidae |
| Subfamily: | Aspenitinae |
| Genus: | Beatites Artharber 1911 |
Beatites is a Lower Triassic ammonite 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.