Virgatites


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

Virgatites virgatus Virgatites pallasianus Virgatites sosia Virgatites larisae Mitta 1983Virgatites gerassimovi Mitta 1983Virgatites crassicostatus Mitta 1987Virgatites rarecostatus Rogov 2017

Description

Viratites has a ribbed evolute shell without tubercles.

Distribution

These cephalopods lived during the Volgan stage of the upper Jurassic in what is now the Russian Platform.