Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae
Alternative combination: Pulchellia gibbosula
Synonym: Hoplitoides autenriethi Riedel 1933
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 W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban 1988
See also Reyment 1955, Reyment 1958, Riedel 1933, Solger 1904 and von Koenen 1897
Sister taxa: Hoplitoides crassicostatus, Hoplitoides ingens, Hoplitoides koeneni, Hoplitoides latefundatus, Hoplitoides latesellatus, Hoplitoides mirabilis, Hoplitoides sandovalensis, Hoplitoides solgeri, Hoplitoides wohltmanni
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 49.3
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection), Cameroon (6), Mexico (1), Nigeria (2)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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