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Hoplitoides ingens

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coilopoceratidae

Taxonomy
Neoptychites ingens was named by von Koenen (1897). It is a 3D body fossil. 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.

It was recombined as Hoplitoides ingens by von Koenen (1898), Solger (1904), Riedel (1933), Reyment (1955), Reyment (1958), Kennedy and Cobban (1988) and Chancellor et al. (1994).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1897Neoptychites ingens von Koenen p. 12 figs. Pl 1, fig 4; pl 2, figs 5,8
1898Hoplitoides ingens von Koenen p. 58 figs. Pl 5, fig 3; pl 7, figs 4,5
1898Hoplitoides wilsingi von Koenen p. 59 figs. Pl 5, fig 2; pl 6, figs 6,7
1904Hoplitoides ingens Solger p. 137 figs. Pl 5, figs 8-10; text-figs 28-41
1933Hoplitoides ingens Riedel p. 128 figs. pl 24, figs 1,1a; pl 25, figs 1,1b,1c; pl 26, figs 1,2,2b,3,4,4a; pl 28, fig 1; pl 29, fig 1
1955Hoplitoides ingens Reyment p. 79 figs. Pl 18, figs 2,4; pl 19, fig 2; pl 20, figs 1-3; text-fig 38
1958Hoplitoides ingens Reyment p. 63 fig. 2.8
1988Hoplitoides ingens Kennedy and Cobban p. 606 figs. 3.16,3.17, 6.12
1994Hoplitoides ingens Chancellor et al. p. 106

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyAcanthoceratoidea(de Grossouvre 1894)
familyCoilopoceratidae
genusHoplitoides
speciesingens()

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.

Hoplitoides ingens von Koenen 1897
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Invalid names: Hoplitoides wilsingi von Koenen 1898 [synonym]
Diagnosis
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