Euhoplites

Euhoplites is an extinct ammonoid cephalopod from the Lower Cretaceous, characterized by strongly ribbed, more or less evolute, compressed to inflated shells with flat or concave ribs, typically with a deep narrow groove running down the middle. In some, ribs seem to zigzag between umbilical tubercles and parallel ventrolateral clavi. In others the ribs are flexuous and curve forward from the umbilical shoulder and lap onto either side of the venter.

Euhoplites

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HoplitinaePBDB
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 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 106.3 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 110.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 6 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous111–110 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–91 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106.3 Mya93.9 Mya110.6 Mya89.3 Mya

8 occurrences of Euhoplites 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

8 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

4 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 46.09°N, 6.76°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.97°N, 6.69°EWoodbine — 32.99°N, 96.95°WCotinguiba — 10.76°S, 37.07°WCarolinefjellet — 77.07°N, 17.08°E

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The named rock units Euhoplites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Euhoplites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

118 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Euhoplites, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 content1

Picture of Euhoplites

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

No 3D scan of Euhoplites was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itHoplitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.