Biology:Pluerohoplites
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| Pluerohoplites Temporal range: mid Cretaceous
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| Superfamily: | Hoplitaceae
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| Genus: | Pluerohoplites Spath 1921
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Pluerohoplites is a genus in the ammonitid family Hoplitidae, found in middle Cretaceous (Upper Albian - Cenomanian of Europe, and included in the subfamily Hoplitinae.
Pleurohoplites has a somewhat involute, compressed to rather inflated shell, with a rounded to subcoronate venter, that bears umbilical tubercles from which branch strong, un-looped, ribs that end in ventrolateral nodes, or are continuous to the siphonal line.
References
- Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L Ammonoidea. R.C. Moore (ed) Geological Soc of America and Univ. Kansas Press (1957) p. L397-398
Wikidata ☰ Q7205229 entry
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