Pectinatites Temporal range: Tithonian |
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Pectinatites pectinatus from Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Swindon, Wiltshire, England at the Natural History Museum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Ammonoidea |
Genus: |
Pectinatites Arkell (1947) |
Species | |
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Pectinatites is an extinct cephalopod genus belonging to the order Ammonoidea, that lived during the upper Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.
Clutches of eggs attributed to this genus have been discovered in the Kimmeridge Clay.