Bevahites

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Bevahites is a Cretaceous ammonite with an evolute, ribbed, tuberculate, and keeled shell with a squarish to compressed whorl section.

Phylum:Mollusca
Subclass:Ammonoidea
Order:Ammonitida
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Bevahites
Temporal range: Santonian–Campanian[1]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Collignoniceratidae
Subfamily: Texanitinae
Genus: Bevahites
Collignon, 1948
Species[2]

None cataloged

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Bevahites is a member of the collignoniceratid subfamily Texanitinae as well as of the Acanthoceratoidea and has been found in Upper Santonian to middle Campanian sediments in southern Africa and Madagascar.

Barrisioceras, Menabites, and Parabevahites are among related genera.

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