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Acanthohoplites

Classification

    Phylum:  
Mollusca
    Class:  
Cephalopoda
    Order:  
Ammonitida
    Superfamily:  
Deshayesitaceae
    Family:  
Parahoplitidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Acanthohoplites SINZOW, 1907, p. 499
    Type Species:  
Parahoplites aschiltaensis Anthula, 1899, p. 117 (63), SD ROMAN, 1938, p. 348


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Fossil Image
Fig. 215, 2a-c. *A. aschiltaensis (Anthula), Caucasus, a, X, b, X0 .5, c, X (Anthula, 1899)


Synonyms

Acanthoplites; Protacanthoplites; Chaschupseceras


Geographic Distribution

Europe, Georgia, Transcaspia, eastern Africa, Madagascar, Japan, California, Arizona, Mexico


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cretaceous (Upper Aptian)
    Beginning International Stage:  
Aptian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
66
    Beginning Date:  
115.99
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Lower Cretaceous (Upper Aptian)
    Ending International Stage:  
Aptian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
113.2


Description

Early whorls coronate and much as in Cheloniceras, later whorls round, then oval in section, primary ribs with or without umbilical bullae, at first branching at prominent lateral tubercles, which later disappear, and then branching at umbilical edge alone or also at midflank.




References



Museum or Author Information

Anthula, 1899