Pectinatites
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| Pectinatites Temporal range: Tithonian, | |
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| P. groenlandicus in Geological Museum, Copenhagen | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Genus: | †Pectinatites Arkell (1947) |
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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]
