Virgatites
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
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| fossil_range = Upper Jurassic, {{Fossilrange|150.8|145.5}}[https://www.fossilworks.org The Paleobiology Database]
| image = Perisphinctidae - Virgatites virgatus.JPG
| image_caption = Fossil shell of Virgatites virgatus from Russia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Mollusca
| classis = Cephalopoda
| subclassis = Ammonoidea
| ordo = Ammonitida
| familia = Perisphinctidae
| subfamilia = Virgatitinae
| genus = Virgatites
| genus_authority = (Pavlov, 1892)
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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.
Species
[http://www.ammonit.ru/tag/96.htm Ammonit.ru]
- Virgatites virgatus (Buch 1830)
- Virgatites pallasianus (d'Orbigny, 1845)
- Virgatites sosia (Vischniakoff 1882)
- Virgatites larisae Mitta 1983
- Virgatites gerassimovi Mitta 1983
- Virgatites crassicostatus Mitta 1987
- Virgatites rarecostatus Rogov 2017
Description
Viratites has a ribbed evolute shell without tubercles.
Distribution
These cephalopods lived during the Volgan stage (or Tithonian age) of the upper JurassicSepkoski, Jack [http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda] in what is now the Russian Platform.
References
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Further reading
- W.J Arkell, et al., Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, 1957. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.
- V.V. Mitta, 1993. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20140714125224/http://ashipunov.info/jurassic/j/MItta,1993_Virgatitidae_en.pdf The Systematic Composition of the Middle Volgian Virgatitidae (Ammonoidea) of Central Asia]}} Paleontological Journal 27(4).
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Category:Jurassic animals of Asia
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