Urakawites

Urakawites
Temporal range: Campanian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Superfamily: Desmocerataceae
Family: Pachydiscidae
Genus: Urakawites
Matsumoto, 1955

Urakawites is an extinct Ammonite from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Japan, Sakhalin, Russia, British Columbia, Canada and possibly Germany and Angola. Urakawites is placed in the family is Pachydiscidae.

Urakawites is characterized by a bituberculate (meaning it has two rows of tubercles on either side), strongly ribbed, moderately compressed shell.

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