Virgatites

Virgatites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopod belonging to the family Perisphinctidae. Related genera in the Virgatitinae include Acuticostites and Zaraiskites. Species in this genus were fast-moving nektonic carnivores.

Species

 * Virgatites virgatus (Buch 1830)
 * Virgatites pallasianus (d'Orbigny, 1845)
 * Virgatites sosia (Vischniakoff 1882)
 * Virgatites larisae Mitta 1983
 * Virgatites gerassimovi Mitta 1983
 * Virgatites crassicostatus Mitta 1987
 * Virgatites rarecostatus Rogov 2017

Description
Viratites has a ribbed evolute shell without tubercles.

Distribution
These cephalopods lived during the Volgan stage (or Tithonian age) of the upper Jurassic in what is now the Russian Platform.