Pleurohoplites

Pleurohoplites is a genus in the ammonitid family Hoplitidae, found in middle Cretaceous (Upper Albian - Cenomanian) of Europe, and included in the subfamily Hoplitinae.

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

Spath 1921

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
  • Pleurohoplites, on fossilworks.org
  • R.C. Moore (ed), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L: Ammonoidea. Geological Soc of America and Univ. Kansas Press, 1957, p. L397-nb|398
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