Menuites
| Menuites Temporal range: Late Cretaceous | |
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| Menuites soyaensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Desmocerataceae |
| Family: | Pachydiscidae |
| Genus: | Menuites Spath, 1922 |
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Menuites is a genus of extinct ammonites, forming a rather small offshoot of Anapachydiscus with a fairly widespread distribution from the Upper Cretaceous Santonian and Campanian stages.
The inner whorls of this pachydiscid have fine, straight or slightly curved, radial, ribs, characteristic of Anapachydiscus. The long body, or living, chamber is with prominent rounded umbilical tubercles and ventrolateral tubercles set on irregular, wide-spaced, rounded ribs.
References
- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Ammonoidea. R.C. Moore (ed). Mesozoic Ammonoidea, p. L 180.
- The Upper Cretaceous Dimorphic Pachydiscid Ammonite Menuites in the Western Interior of the United States, William A. Cobban and W. James Kennedy, U.S. Geological Survery Professional Paper 1533, 1993.
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