Arctoptychites

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| taxon = Arctoptychites

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Arctoptychites is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the ceratitid family Ptychitidae, and related to such genera as Ptychites and Aristoptychites; all from the Triassic.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=14037 Arctoptychites Paleodb]

The Ptychitidae, to which Arctoptychites belongs, is a family of ceratitid ammonites (sensu lato) with ammonitic sutures and variably subglobular to compressed, ribbed or smooth, generally evolute shells.Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (1957),Mesozoic Ammonoidea p.L180.