Anahoplites

Anahoplites is a genus of rather involute, compressed hoplitid ammonites with flat sides, narrow flat or grooved venters, and flexious ribs or striae arising from weak umbilicle tubercles that end in fine dense ventrolateral nodes. The elements of their sutures are short, wide and jaggedy. Specimens of Annahoplites have diameters typically in the range of 4–6 centimetres (1.6–2.4 in) although some with diameters of as much as 19 centimetres (7.5 in) have been reported. The genus lived during the Cretaceous, from the Middle to the late Albian.

Anahoplites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnahoplitinaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 9.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 19 of 20 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 20 occurrencesLate Cretaceous114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 1 occurrence110–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 2 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110.1 Mya100.5 Mya113.7 Mya93.4 Mya

20 occurrences of Anahoplites on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

20 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

8 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 46.09°N, 6.76°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.78°EHaida — 53.25°N, 132.00°WHaida — 53.22°N, 132.04°WArgiles Tegulines de Courcelles — 48.33°N, 4.44°EPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°EAitamir — 36.83°N, 59.93°EAitamir — 36.62°N, 60.07°EMogilno — 51.98°N, 19.02°EConglomérats de Bargy — 45.97°N, 6.32°EGault — 51.08°N, 1.20°E

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The named rock units Anahoplites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anahoplites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Anahoplites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

109 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Anahoplites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

8 references

Each of the 20 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Anahoplites

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Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAnahoplitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hyatt 1900