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Hoplites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hoplitidae

Taxonomy
Hoplites was named as a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Hoplitidae, Hoplitaceaea, Hoplitinae.

It was reranked as Neoptychites (Hoplites) by van Koenen (1897).

It was assigned to Neoptychites by van Koenen (1897); to Ammonoidea by Stanton (1895), Sepkoski (2002); and to Hoplitinae by Nagy (1970), Wright et al. (1996), Tajika et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1895Hoplites Stanton p. 79
1897Neoptychites (Hoplites) van Koenen
1970Hoplites Nagy p. 32
1996Hoplites Wright et al. p. 117
2002Hoplites Sepkoski
2018Hoplites Tajika et al. p. 69 fig. 2m,n

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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
genusHoplites

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.

G. †Hoplites
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Subg. †Hoplites (Hoplites) Neumayr 1875
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Subg. †Hoplites (Isohoplites) Casey 1954
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†Isohoplites steinmanni Jacob 1907
†Hoplites aguilearae Böse 1923
†Hoplites moutonianus d'Orbigny 1850
†Hoplites obtusenodosa Retowski 1893
†Hoplites symonensis Böse 1923
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
shell height120.5
shell diameter151.0
shell inflation116.5

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 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Tithonian to the top of the Early/Lower Turonian or 149.20000 to 89.80000 Ma

Collections (46 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Jurassic161.5 - 143.1Argentina (Mendoza) H. vetustus (137144)
Tithonian - Berriasian149.2 - 137.05Russian Federation Delphinella obtusenodosa (213004)
Berriasian143.1 - 137.05Ukraine Delphinella obtusenodosa (163877 163882)
Valanginian137.05 - 132.6Mexico (Durango) H. sp. (87612)
Aptian121.4 - 113.2Spain (Catalonia) H. desayesi (111535)
Aptian121.4 - 113.2Svalbard and Jan Mayen H. sp. (211839 212052)
Early/Lower Albian113.2 - 110.1France (Champagne-Ardenne) H. sp., Isohoplites sp. (53541)
Early/Lower Albian113.2 - 110.1United Kingdom (England) H. sp. (1863) H. sp., Isohoplites sp. (1848)
Early/Lower Albian113.2 - 110.1France H. sp. (56521 58532)
Early/Lower Albian - Middle Albian113.2 - 106.3Switzerland H. sp. (58112)
Albian113.2 - 100.5France (Picardie) H. dentatus, H. paronai (139923)
Albian113.2 - 100.5United Kingdom (England) H. baylei, Isohoplites sp. (1831) H. benettianus (1832) Isohoplites eodentatus (1830)
Albian113.2 - 100.5Ukraine (Crimea) H. dentatus (124720)
Albian113.2 - 100.5Greenland H. sp. (160922)
Early/Lower Albian - Late/Upper Albian113.2 - 100.5France H. bennetianus, H. sp., Isohoplites steinmanni (58861)
Middle Albian110.1 - 106.3Poland H. dentatus (2102)
Middle Albian110.1 - 106.3Svalbard and Jan Mayen H. eodentatus (174876) H. obtusus (174882) H. sp. A (174867) H. sp. B (174865) H. sp. C (174859) H. sp. D (174886) H. sp. E (174887) H. svalbardensis (174864 174868 174877 174878 174881)
Middle Albian110.1 - 106.3Russian Federation (Vladimir) H. spathi, H. dentatus, H. sp. (235282)
Middle Albian110.1 - 106.3France H. bennetianus, H. sp. (56540) H. dentatus, Isohoplites steinmanni (58933) H. sp. (56529 56550 56664 58430) H. steinmanni, H. dentatus (58422) H. steinmanni, H. sp. (58368)
Middle Albian - Late/Upper Albian110.1 - 100.5Switzerland H. mirabiliformis (197618)
Late/Upper Albian106.3 - 100.5France H. sp. (58878)
Early/Lower Turonian93.9 - 89.8Cameroon Neoptychites wohltmanni (209694)