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Discohoplites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hoplitidae

Taxonomy
Discohoplites is a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Ammonites coelonotus.

It was assigned to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Hoplitinae by Szives (2007), Kennedy and Latil (2007), Kennedy et al. (2008).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Discohoplites Sepkoski
2007Discohoplites Kennedy and Latil p. 462
2007Discohoplites Szives p. 99
2008Discohoplites Kennedy et al. p. 41

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitidaHaeckel 1866
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyHoplitoidea(Douvillé 1890)
familyHoplitidaeDouvillé 1890
subfamilyHoplitinaeDouvillé 1890
genusDiscohoplites

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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†Discohoplites coelonotus Seeley 1865
†Discohoplites simplex Wright and Wright 1949
†Discohoplites subfalcatus Semenov 1899
†Discohoplites valbonnensis Hébert and Munier-Chalmas 1875
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Albian to the top of the Late/Upper Albian or 113.20000 to 100.50000 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian113.2 - 106.3France D. valbonnensis valbonnensis, D. subfalcatus, D. coelonotus (13499)
Late/Upper Albian106.3 - 100.5United Kingdom (England) D. sp. (82808)
Late/Upper Albian106.3 - 100.5Belgium D. valbonnensis (174924)
Late/Upper Albian106.3 - 100.5France D. simplex (174478 174479) D. simplex, D. subfalcatus (174485) D. sp. (58431) D. subfalcatus (174483 174487)