Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Full reference: A. von Koenen. 1898. Nachtrag zu Ueber Fossilien der unteren Kreide am Ufer des Mungo in Kamerun. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Mathematisch-Physikalische Klasse. Neue Folge 1:49-65
Parent taxon: Coilopoceratidae according to G. R. Chancellor et al. 1994
See also Benavides-Caceres 1956, Cobban and Hook 1980, Sepkoski 2002, Wright 1952 and Zaborski 1987
Sister taxa: Coilopoceras, Erichsenites
Subtaxa: Hoplitoides crassicostatus Hoplitoides gibbosulus Hoplitoides ingens Hoplitoides koeneni Hoplitoides latefundatus Hoplitoides latesellatus Hoplitoides mirabilis Hoplitoides sandovalensis Hoplitoides solgeri Hoplitoides wohltmanni
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (3 collections), Cameroon (14), Colombia (1), Mexico (3), Nigeria (4), Peru (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (3), United States (14: New Mexico), Venezuela (2)
Total: 46 collections including 72 occurrences
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