Pluerohoplites
| Pluerohoplites Temporal range: mid Cretaceous | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Superfamily: | Hoplitaceae |
| Family: | Hoplitidae |
| Genus: | Pluerohoplites Spath 1921 |
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
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