Virgatites

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Virgatites
Temporal range: Upper Jurassic, 150.8–145.5  Ma
Perisphinctidae - Virgatites virgatus.JPG
Fossil shell of Virgatites virgatus from Russia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Virgatites

(Pavlov, 1892)

Virgatites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the family Perisphinctidae. Related genera in the Virgatitinae include Acuticostites and Zaraiskites . Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. [1]

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Species

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Description

Viratites has a ribbed evolute shell without tubercles.

Distribution

These cephalopods lived during the Volgan stage (or Tithonian age) of the upper Jurassic [3] in what is now the Russian Platform.

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