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Hoploscaphites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1911Hoploscaphites Nowak
1952Scaphites (Hoploscaphites) Jeletzky p. 1027
1965Scaphites (Hoploscaphites) Birkelund p. 102
1983Hoploscaphites Riccardi p. 9
1986Hoploscaphites Kennedy and Summesberger p. 198
1987Hoploscaphites Kennedy and Summesberger p. 34
1993Hoploscaphites Kennedy p. 113
1993Hoploscaphites Kennedy and Cobban p. 430
1993Hoploscaphites Landman and Waage p. 73
1993Hoploscaphites Ward and Kennedy p. 53
1994Hoploscaphites Kennedy and Cobban p. 1300
2000Hoploscaphites Arkadiev et al. p. 120
2002Hoploscaphites Sepkoski
2003Hoploscaphites Landman and Cobban p. 23
2010Hoploscaphites Landman et al. p. 93
2012Hoploscaphites Machalski et al. p. 731

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyScaphitoidea(Gill 1871)
familyScaphitidaeGill 1871
genusHoploscaphitesNowak 1911

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. †Hoploscaphites Nowak 1911
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Hoploscaphites birkelundae Landman and Waage 1993
Hoploscaphites brevis Meek 1876
Hoploscaphites indicus Forbes 1846
Hoploscaphites landesi Riccardi 1983
Hoploscaphites melloi Landman and Waage 1993
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Invalid names: Ammonites abyssinus Morton 1841 [synonym], Scaphites mandanensis Morton 1842 [synonym]
Hoploscaphites pumilus Stephenson 1941
Hoploscaphites sargklofak Landman et al. 2015
Hoploscaphites vistulensis Blaszkiewicz 1980
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height128.135.0013.58.252.34
shell diameter1217.211.532.017.55.10
shell inflation123.212.009.503.001.97

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 Santonian to the top of the Early/Lower Maastrichtian or 86.30000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (281 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Santonian86.3 - 83.6Antarctica H. sp. 1 (83371 83372 83373)
Campanian83.6 - 72.1USA (Wyoming) H. gilli (1682 1684 1722 1726 1728 1730 233961) H. gilli, H. sp. (1720) H. nodosus (1633 1636) H. plenus (1623) H. sp. (1619 1624 1626 1628 1630 1634 1643 1647 1648 1678 1713 1727 1729 1731 1733 1734 1735 1740) H. sp., H. gilli (1677 1719)
Campanian83.6 - 72.1USA (Kansas) Acanthoscaphites nodosus (71831 71832 71833 71834)
Campanian83.6 - 72.1Antarctica H. quiriquinensis (166117)
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6Antarctica H. sp. 2 (83376 83377)
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (New Mexico) Scaphites gilli (88548)
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (Wyoming) H. sp. (1737 186542 186543)
Early/Lower Campanian83.5 - 70.6Germany H. gibbus (64139 64141)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (Arkansas) H. pumilis (83037 83038 83041 83042 83043 83051) Jeletzkytes nodosus, H. pumilis (83046)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Saskatchewan) Acanthoscaphites nodosus (87441) H. landesi (88507) H. sp. (88480) H. sp. A (88506) H. sp. B (88481) Jeletzkytes brevis (88477 88479 88501) Jeletzkytes nodosus (88508 88509)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Germany (Niedersachsen) H. greenlandicus (31993)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (Texas) Scaphites pumilus (7481)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (Delaware) H. sp. (6171) H. vistulensis (83133)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (Colorado) Jeletzkytes nodosus (178532) Jeletzkytes nodosus, H. landesi, Jeletzkytes brevis (162249)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Germany H. gibbus (63985 63991 63995 64002 64127 64130 64131 64132 64134 64135 64136 64142 64143 64155 64177 64180 64181) H. greenlandicus (64215) H. monasteriensis, H. gibbus (64128) Scaphites constrictus (221859)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (Wyoming) H. sp. (1639 1640 1642 1646)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Greenland Scaphites greenlandicus, Scaphites ravni (70233) Scaphites sp., Scaphites ikorfatensis, Scaphites ravni (70235)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6France (Landes) H. pumilus (213901 213909 214029 214035 214048 214051 214054 214055 214056 214086 214087)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (New Mexico) H. nodosus (88559)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Tajikistan Scaphites brevis (186535) Scaphites brevis, Scaphites pumilus (185088)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6USA (Montana) Acanthoscaphites nodosus (213002)
Late/Upper Campanian83.5 - 70.6Canada (Alberta) Acanthoscaphites nodosus (82638) H. sp. A (88491)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0USA (Wyoming) H. plenus (1596) H. plenus, H. quadrangularis (1593 1594) H. quadrangularis (1614) H. quadrangularis, H. plenus (1595) H. sargklofak (1578 1580) H. sp. (1618)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0USA (Texas) Scaphites brevis (7541)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0USA (New Jersey) Jeletzkytes nodosus, H. pumilus (83064)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0Germany H. tenuistriatus (67433)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0Denmark H. constrictus (67408 67409 67414 67419 67422 67423 67424 67426 67427 67431 67432) H. constrictus, H. tenuistriatus (67404 67405 67410 67415 67416 67418 67420) H. tenuistriatus (67402)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0Greenland H. angmartussutensis (83139) Scaphites angmartussutensis (70218 70221 70223 70228 70240)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Belgium H. constrictus (82892) H. constrictus, H. tenuistriatus (82909)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Netherlands H. felderi, H. pungens, H. constrictus (82927) H. tenuistriatus (82411 82923)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (South Dakota) H. melloi (88513 178587)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Austria H. sp., H. constrictus (83619)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Canada (Saskatachewan) H. quadrangularis (234104)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Germany Scaphites constrictus (213668)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (Wyoming) H. quadrangularis (1586) H. quadrangularis, H. plenus, H. sargklofak (1588) H. sargklofak (1579 1584)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Turkmenistan H. constrictus (183333 183334)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0France (Landes) H. constrictus (214168 214208 214221 214222 214223 214228 214229) H. pumilus (214060 214061 214062 214064 214108 214159 214161 214163 214167 214177 214212 214227) H. sp. (214191 214211)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Ukraine H. constrictus (183327 183331)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Spain (Cataluña) Scaphites constrictus (67004)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian - Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (Kansas) Discoscaphites abyssinus (71837)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian - Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (Colorado) Discoscaphites abyssinus (71838)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (Wyoming) H. birkelundi (178313 178588 178589 178590 178591 178592 178593 178594 178595 178596) H. sp. (1581)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (South Dakota) H. comprimus (178576 178577 178578 178579 178580 178581 178582 178583 178584 178585 178586) H. nicolleti (194136) H. nicolletii (88512 178553 178554 178555 178557 178558 178559 178561 178562 178563 178564 178565 178566 178567 178568 178569 178570 178571 178572 178573 178574 178575 178635 178638) H. nicolletii, H. comprimus (88510 88511) H. sp., H. nicolletii (178560 178597 178598)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0France H. sp., H. constrictus (83648 83649 83651)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (Texas) H. sp. (4423 4435)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Greenland H. angmartussutensis (83140 83141)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Belgium H. constrictus (82493)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Denmark H. constrictus (67340 67343 67412 67413 67421 67429 67430) H. tenuistriatus (67406)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Canada (Alberta) Discoscaphites abyssinus (82643)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0India Ammonites indicus (41428)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Turkmenistan H. constrictus (183332 183335 183336 183337 183338 183339)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (North Dakota) H. nicolletii (178556) Scaphites nicolletii (57919)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (Alabama) H. sp. (205799)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Netherlands H. constrictus (82496)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0USA (Colorado) H. birkelundae (178290 178291 178292 178293 178294 178295 178296 178297)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Bulgaria (Pleven) H. constrictus (105085)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Chile H. constrictus (165494)