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Praestrigites

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Cephalopoda

Order
  
Ammonitida

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Mollusca

Subclass
  
Ammonoidea

Superfamily
  
Haplocerataceae

Similar
  
Hyperlioceras, Lissoceras, Garantiana

Praestrigites is a genus from the Strigoceratidae which is included in the ammonitid superfamily, Haplocerataceae.

Praestrigites was named by Buckman in 1924, who also that year named the family Strigoceratidae. The genotype is P. praenuntius

Distribution

Praestrigites comes from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) and has been found in Morocco.

References

Praestrigites Wikipedia