''Bevahites'' is a

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of ...

ammonite Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttle ...

with an evolute, ribbed, tuberculate, and keeled shell with a squarish to compressed whorl section. ''Bevahites'' is a member of the collignoniceratid subfamily Texanitinae as well as of the

Acanthoceratoidea Acanthoceratoidea, formerly Acanthocerataceae, is a superfamily of Upper Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the order Ammonitida, and comprising some 10 or so families.W.J Arkell ''et al''., Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate ...

and has been found in Upper

Santonian The Santonian is an age in the geologic timescale or a chronostratigraphic stage. It is a subdivision of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or Upper Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 86.3 ± 0.7 mya (million years ago) and 83.6 ± 0.7 mya. ...

to middle

Campanian The Campanian is the fifth of six ages of the Late Cretaceous Epoch on the geologic timescale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS). In chronostratigraphy, it is the fifth of six stages in the Upper Cretaceous Series. Campani ...

sediments in southern Africa and Madagascar. '' Barrisioceras'', '' Menabites'', and '' Parabevahites'' are among related genera.

References

;Notes ;Bibliography *Arkell, et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. Cretaceous ammonites Cretaceous animals of Africa Santonian genus first appearances Campanian genus extinctions Collignoniceratidae Ammonitida genera {{Ammonite-stub