Biology:Zaraiskites

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Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)


Zaraiskites
Temporal range: Tithonian[1]
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Virgatitinae
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Zaraiskites

Semenov, 1898

Zaraiskites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopod that lived during the Tithonian.

Zaraiskites has a ribbed evolute shell without tubercles. Inner whorls are with normal bifurcate or triplicate ribbing; outer whorl is with virgatotome ribbing with as many as seven secondary ribs taking off successively in front of each primary rib.

Related genera in the Virgatitinae include Acuticostites and Virgatites

Distribution

Only found at Kuibyshev Reservoir, Volga River, Russia.[2]

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  • 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). [1]

Wikidata ☰ Q8066589 entry