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

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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

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