Peritrochia

{{Short description|Extinct family of molluscs}}

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| taxon = Peritrochia

| authority = Girty 1908

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| subdivision = P. erebus Girty 1908{{cite journal |last1=Girty |first1=G.H. |title=The Guadalupian Fauna |journal=U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper |date=1908 |volume=58 |doi=10.3133/pp58|doi-access=free }}

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Peritrochia is an extinct genus of ammonite belonging to the order Goniatitida and family Vidrioceratidae.{{cite journal |last1=Leonova |first1=T. B. |title=Revision of the Late Paleozoic Family Vidrioceratidae Plummer et Scott (Ammonoidea) |journal=Paleontological Journal |date=May 2018 |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=234–244 |doi=10.1134/S0031030118030073}} Specimens have been recovered from Permian beds in North America{{cite journal |first1=A. K. |last1=Miller |year=1945 |title=Some exceptional Permian ammonoids from west Texas |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=19 |number=1 |pages=14-21 |jstor=1299163}} and East Timor.{{cite journal |last1=Wanner |first1=J. |title=Stratigraphy of Portuguese Timor |journal=Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft |date=1 January 1956 |volume=108 |issue=1 |pages=109–140 |doi=10.1127/zdgg/108/1956/109}}