Hoplites (Hoplites)
E. V. Wright · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- HoplitesPBDB
- 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 20 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 83.6 Mya.
14 occurrences of Hoplites (Hoplites) 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
- Carolinefjellet Formation8
- Folkestone Formation · Lower Greensand Group2
- Grès verts helvétiques Formation2
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The named rock units Hoplites (Hoplites) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hoplites (Hoplites) and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Hoplites (Hoplites) and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
120 taxa- Grycia sablei7 sites
- Grycia whittingtoni5 sites
- Beudanticeras3 sites
- Birostrina2 sites
- Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum2 sites
- Douvilleiceras2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Hamites2 sites
- Hemiaster2 sites
- Lyelliceras2 sites
- Phylloceras2 sites
- Protanisoceras2 sites
- Anisoceras1 site
- Arca1 site
- Aucellina1 site
- Avellana1 site
- Baculites anceps1 site
- Beudanticeras (Beudanticeras) convergens1 site
- Beudanticeras beudanti1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Callihoplites1 site
- Camerogalerus1 site
- Cantabrigites1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Hoplites (Hoplites), 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- Ammonite faunas and stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous (Albian) rocks in southern Spitsbergen8
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)2
- Evolutionary relationships within Hoplitidae (Cretaceous Ammonoidea)1
- Middle Albian stratigraphy in the Anglo-Paris basin1
- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand1
- Die Cephalopoden der oberen Kreide Südpatagoniens1
Each of the 14 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 Hoplites (Hoplites)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- E. V. Wright
- Licence
- CC0
- 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 and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHoplites through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Neumayr 1875