Hemihoplites
| Hemihoplites Temporal range: Cretaceous, 136.4–125.45 Ma | |
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| Fossil shells of Hemihoplites soulieri from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Suborder: | Ancyloceratina |
| Superfamily: | Ancyloceratoidea |
| Family: | Hemihoplitidae |
| Genus: | Hemihoplites Spath 1924 |
Hemihoplites is an extinct genus of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the family Hemihoplitidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores [1] lived in the Cretaceous period, from Hauterivian age to Barremian age. [2]
Species
- Hemihoplites feraudianus d'Orbigny 1841
- Hemihoplites mexicanus Imlay 1940
- Hemihoplites ploszkiewiczi Riccardi and Aguirre Urreta 1989
- Hemihoplites soulieri (Matheron, 1878)
- Hemihoplites varicostatus Riccardi and Aguirre Urreta 1989
Distribution
Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous rocks of southeastern France, Mexico, Slovakia, South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago. [1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 The Paleobiology Database
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda
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