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''Okribites'' is a perisphinctoidean
ammonite Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...
from the
middle Jurassic The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period. It lasted from about 174.1 to 163.5 million years ago. Fossils of land-dwelling animals, such as dinosaurs, from the Middle Jurassic are relatively rare, but geological formations co ...
of the
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. It is assigned to the family Parkinsoniidae, a group of strongly but evenly ribbed evolute, commonly discoidal ammonites.Ammonites.fr - Parkinsoniidae
/ref> '' Parkinsonia'' is a related genus.Paleobiology Database - Okribites
2017-10-19.


References

* W.J. Arkell et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleongology, Part L, Ammonoidea. Jurassic ammonites Jurassic animals of Asia Ammonitida genera Perisphinctoidea {{ammonitina-stub