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Fossil shell of Virgatites virgatus from Russia, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
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Subfamily: | Virgatitinae
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Genus: | Virgatites (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.[1]
Viratites has a ribbed evolute shell without tubercles.
These cephalopods lived during the Volgan stage (or Tithonian age) of the upper Jurassic[3] in what is now the Russian Platform.