Hemihoplites

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Hemihoplites
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 136.4–125.45  Ma
Hemihoplitidae - Hemihoplites soulieri.JPG
Fossil shells of Hemihoplites soulieri from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Family: Hemihoplitidae
Genus: Hemihoplites
Spath, 1924
Hemihoplites orbignyanus (Matheron), Upper Barremian, Brestak (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology Hemihoplites orbignyanus (Matheron), Upper Barremian, Brestak (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski' Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology.jpg
Hemihoplites orbignyanus (Matheron), Upper Barremian, Brestak (Coll. St. Breskovski) at the Sofia University Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology

Hemihoplites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Hemihoplitidae. [2] These fast-moving nektonic carnivores [1] lived in the Cretaceous period, from Hauterivian age to Barremian age. [3]

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Description

It is evolute, compressed. The Whorl section is rectangular. The ribs are simple or branching or long or short, well spaced, straight or slightly flexuous, crossing flat venter transversely, typically with distinct umbilical and ventrolateral tubercles. [2]

Species

Distribution

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous rocks of Antarctida (Alexander Island), Bulgaria, southeastern France, Mexico, Slovakia, South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Hemihoplites". fossilworks.
  2. 1 2 Wright, C. W. with Callomon, J.H. and Howarth, M.K. (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised , Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et el. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, pp. 228, 231.
  3. Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda