Pectinatites

Pectinatites
Temporal range: Tithonian[1]
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 [2]
  • 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. [1] They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores. [2]

Clutches of eggs attributed to this genus have been discovered in the Kimmeridge Clay.[3]

References

Notes
  1. 1 2 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. 1 2 "Paleobiology Database - Pectinatites". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  3. ↑ Etches, S.; Clarke, J.; Callomon, J. (2009). "Ammonite eggs and ammonitellae from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dorset, England". Lethaia 42 (2): 204–217. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2008.00133.x.
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