Kachpurites

Kachpurites
Temporal range: Tithonian
Scientific classification
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Perisphinctaceae
Family: Craspeditidae
Genus: Kachpurites
Spath, 1924

Kachpurites is an uppermost Jurassic (Tithonian) ammonite included in the perisphincacean family, Craspeditidae; although some classifiers put the Craspeditidae a subfamily in the Polyptychitidae. The shell of Kachpurites is subinvolute with a rounded section and bears low, close spaced, moderately sinuous ribs.

Kachpurites is characteristic of the lower part of the upper Volgan substage in the Russian Platform.

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