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Menuites

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Pachydiscidae

Rank
  
Genus

Subclass
  
Ammonites

Superfamily
  
Desmocerataceae

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Order
  
Ammonitida

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Similar
  
Ammonites, Nostoceras, Bostrychoceras, Orthaspidoceras, Normannites

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.

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