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Pleurohoplites

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Pleurohoplites
Temporal range: Middle Cretaceous
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Family: Hoplitidae
Subfamily: Hoplitinae
Genus: Pleurohoplites
Spath, 1921

Pleurohoplites is a genus in the ammonitid family Hoplitidae, found in middle Cretaceous (Upper Albian - Cenomanian) of Europe, and included in the subfamily Hoplitinae.[1]

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

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  1. ^ "Pleurohoplites". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 29 December 2022.