Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Alternative combination: Neoptychites ingens
Synonym: Hoplitoides wilsingi von Koenen 1898
Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1897. Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:3-48
Belongs to Hoplitoides according to G. R. Chancellor et al. 1994
See also Kennedy and Cobban 1988, Reyment 1955, Reyment 1958, Riedel 1933, Solger 1904, von Koenen 1897 and von Koenen 1898
Sister taxa: Hoplitoides crassicostatus, Hoplitoides gibbosulus, Hoplitoides koeneni, Hoplitoides latefundatus, Hoplitoides latesellatus, Hoplitoides mirabilis, Hoplitoides sandovalensis, Hoplitoides solgeri, Hoplitoides wohltmanni
Type specimens:
- Hoplitoides ingens: Its type locality is Mungo River, between Mundame and Eliki, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone/sandstone in the Mungo River Formation of Cameroon
- Hoplitoides wilsingi: Its type locality is Elephantenbank, Mungo River, which is in a Turonian carbonate limestone in the Mungo River Formation of Cameroon.
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection), Cameroon (12), Mexico (2), Nigeria (2), Tunisia (1)
Total: 18 collections including 19 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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