Acanthohoplites

Acanthohoplites is an extinct genus of ammonites in the family Parahoplitidae that lived in the Aptian and Early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous.

Acanthohoplites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthohoplitinaePBDB
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 13 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 82 of 83 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 83 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–120 Mya — about 3 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 7 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 11 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 11 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 11 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 11 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 11 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 11 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 3 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences119.57 Mya106.3 Mya122 Mya93.3 Mya

83 occurrences of Acanthohoplites 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

83 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

15 formations

Grès verts helvétiques — 45.89°N, 6.48°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.00°N, 6.70°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.96°N, 6.54°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.86°N, 6.45°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.85°N, 6.43°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.91°N, 6.27°EBudden Canyon — 40.46°N, 122.59°WLowell — 31.35°N, 109.89°WSanganeh — 36.83°N, 59.93°ESanganeh — 36.58°N, 60.13°ESanganeh — 37.77°N, 56.93°EClansayes — 27.20°N, 100.55°WClansayes — 24.23°N, 98.12°WTodai — 35.79°N, 138.13°ETata Limestone — 47.65°N, 18.31°ELemgo — 31.21°N, 7.88°WMakatini — 27.36°S, 32.16°EMakatini — 27.53°S, 32.17°ELa Péna — 27.83°N, 101.92°WRio Mayer — 48.92°S, 71.92°WMaputo — 26.83°S, 32.22°ERizan Aneiza — 30.80°N, 33.45°EAitamir — 38.14°N, 56.79°ESandgate — 51.61°N, 1.53°W

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The named rock units Acanthohoplites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 28 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthohoplites and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

207 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Acanthohoplites, 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

24 references

Each of the 83 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. 12 further references are not listed. 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 Acanthohoplites

Credit
Hectonichus
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Acanthohoplites 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

Licence
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 itAcanthohoplitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sinzow 1908