Benueites Temporal range:
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Family: | †Acanthoceratidae |
Subfamily: | †Acanthoceratinae |
Genus: | †Benueites Reyment, 1954 |
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Benueites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod genus from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian),[2] named by Revment, 1954, included in the family Acanthoceratidae, superfamily Acanthoceratoidea.
Cretaceous of Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia (Loma Gorda Formation, Aipe, Huila),[3] Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela [1]