Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Alternative spelling: Perisphinctes (Virgatosphinctes)
Full reference: V. Uhlig. 1910. The Fauna of the Spiti Shales. Memoir of the Geological Survey of India, Palaeontologica Indica. New Series 15 4(2):133-306
Parent taxon: Virgatosphinctinae according to C. Salazar and W. Stinnesbeck 2016
See also Helmstaedt 1969, Mesezhnikov 1984, Myczynski 1989, Sepkoski 2002, Uhlig 1910 and Verma and Westermann 1973
Sister taxa: Anavirgatites, Aulacosphinctoides, Laugeites, Metagravesia, Nannostephanus, Nothostephanus, Pachysphinctes, Paraberriasella, Parapallasiceras, Phanerostephanus, Propectinatites, Pseudinvoluticeras, Pseudoinvoluticeras, Subplanites, Torquatisphinctes, Wheatleyites
Subtaxa: Perisphinctes (Virgatosphinctes) broilii Virgatosphinctes communis Virgatosphinctes cristobalensis Virgatosphinctes denseplicatus Virgatosphinctes fresnosensis Virgatosphinctes kagbeniensis Virgatosphinctes pinarensis Virgatosphinctes sanchezi Virgatosphinctes scythicus Virgatosphinctes subtenuicostatus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Yemen (1 collection)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (6), Chile (6), China (1), Cuba (4), Ethiopia (1), India (5), Madagascar (1), Mexico (5), Nepal (1), the Russian Federation (7), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: California), Yemen (2)
Total: 43 collections including 53 occurrences
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