Virgatites Explained

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

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• 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 Jurassic^[2] in what is now the Russian Platform.

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. The Systematic Composition of the Middle Volgian Virgatitidae (Ammonoidea) of Central Asia Paleontological Journal 27(4).

Notes and References

1. http://www.ammonit.ru/tag/96.htm Ammonit.ru
2. Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda