{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Santonian|Campanian}} | image = Menuites soyaensis - National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo - DSC06958.JPG | image_caption = ''Menuites soyaensis'' | taxon = Menuites | authority = Spath, 1922 }} {{Commons category}}
'''''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.
== Distribution == Fossils of ''Menuites'' have been found in Angola, Antarctica, Australia, Austria, Chile, France, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Russian Federation, South Africa and the United States (Arkansas, Delaware, New Jersey, Wyoming).<ref name=FWMenuites>[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=67357 ''Menuites''] at Fossilworks.org</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Further reading == * 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 Survey Professional Paper 1533, 1993. [https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1533/report.pdf]
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Category:Desmoceratoidea Category:Ammonitida genera Category:Cretaceous ammonites Category:Ammonites of South America Category:Cretaceous Chile Category:Ammonites of Asia Category:Ammonites of Australia Category:Cretaceous animals of Australia Category:Late Cretaceous ammonites of Europe Category:Late Cretaceous ammonites of North America Category:Cretaceous Mexico Category:Cretaceous United States
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