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Pectinatites

Pectinatites
Temporal range: Tithonian
Ammonoidea - Pectinatites pectinatus.jpg
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
  • P. pectinatus (Phill.)
  • P. paravirgatus
  • P. eastlecottensis
  • P. (Arkellites) hudlestoni
  • P. (Virgatosphincoides) encombensis
  • P. (Virgatosphinctoides) reisiformis
  • P. (Virgatosphinctoides) wheatleyensis
  • P. (Virgatoshinctoides) smedmorensis
  • P. (Virgatosphintoides) scitulus
  • P. (Virgatosphinctoides) elegans

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.


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