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Alurites postcostatus

Status not recordedoctopus and squidExtinct

Alurites postcostatus is a species in the family Reticuloceratidae, order Ammonoidea. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Russia.

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Quick facts about Alurites postcostatus

Weight
Not recorded
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does Alurites postcostatus live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Alurites postcostatus is listed for 1 country.

Russia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Russia

Why a country list is not a range map

Is Alurites postcostatus endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Alurites postcostatus classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumMollusca
  3. classCephalopoda
  4. orderAmmonoidea
  5. familyReticuloceratidae
  6. genusAlurites
  7. SpeciesAlurites postcostatus Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaya, 1978

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Alurites postcostatus

Other species in the same genus Alurites.

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Common questions

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Where does Alurites postcostatus live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Alurites postcostatus for 1 country: Russia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

What kind of animal is Alurites postcostatus?

Alurites postcostatus (Alurites postcostatus) belongs to the family Reticuloceratidae in the order Ammonoidea.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Alurites postcostatus (Alurites postcostatus). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/alurites-postcostatus

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BibTeX
@misc{alurites_postcostatus_2026,
  title = {Alurites postcostatus (Alurites postcostatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/alurites-postcostatus},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}