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Pectinatites Temporal range: Tithonian |
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| Pectinatites pectinatus from Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Swindon, Wiltshire, England at the Natural History Museum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Ammonoidea |
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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. They were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.
Clutches of eggs attributed to this genus have been discovered in the Kimmeridge Clay.