Pectinatites Temporal range: Tithonian,
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Genus: | Pectinatites Arkell (1947)
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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.[1] They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.[2]
Clutches of eggs attributed to this genus have been discovered in the Kimmeridge Clay.[3]