# Menuites

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{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
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| 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](/source/Leonard_Frank_Spath), 1922
}}   
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'''''Menuites''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of extinct [ammonites](/source/ammonites), forming a rather small offshoot of ''[Anapachydiscus](/source/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](/source/Fossilworks).org</ref>

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* [Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology](/source/Treatise_on_Invertebrate_Paleontology), Part L, Ammonoidea. R.C. Moore (ed). Mesozoic Ammonoidea, p.&nbsp;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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