Beatites
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| Beatites Temporal range: Early Triassic | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ceratitida |
| Family: | †Hedenstroemiidae |
| Genus: | †Beatites Artharber, 1911 |
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.