Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Virgatitinae Rank Genus Subclass Ammonites | Family Perisphinctidae Phylum Mollusca Order Ammonitida | |
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Similar Ammonites, Tissotia, Reineckeia, Tragophylloceras, Schlotheimia | ||
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.
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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 in what is now the Russian Platform.
References
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