Parahoplites

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParahoplitinaePBDB
- 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 6.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
65 occurrences of Parahoplites 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
65 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
17 formations
- Sandgate Formation · Lower Greensand Group18
- Todai Formation5
- Ferruginous Sands Formation · Lower Greensand Group4
- Aitamir Formation4
- Budden Canyon Formation4
- Pabellon Formation · Chanarcillo Group3
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The named rock units Parahoplites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Parahoplites and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Parahoplites and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
283 taxa- Acanthohoplites6 sites
- Ornithella5 sites
- Anglonautilus undulatus4 sites
- Arenaciarcula fittoni4 sites
- Douvilleiceras4 sites
- Hypacanthoplites4 sites
- Panopea4 sites
- Rhynchonella4 sites
- Tropaeum subarcticum4 sites
- Acanthohoplites aschiltaensis3 sites
- Cheloniceras buxtorfi3 sites
- Cidaris3 sites
- Cyclothyris latissima3 sites
- Cyrtothyris uniplicata3 sites
- Dufrenoyia3 sites
- Entolium orbiculare3 sites
- Eurotrigonia mantelli3 sites
- Gemmarcula3 sites
- Neohibolites3 sites
- Pleurotomaria3 sites
- Praelongithyris praelongiforma3 sites
- Rastellum diluvianum3 sites
- Tetragramma3 sites
- Thetironia minor3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Parahoplites, 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- The stratigraphical palaeontology of the Lower Greensand23
- Aptian (Lower Cretaceous) ammonite fauna of the Todai Formation, Nagano Prefecture, Japan5
- The Cretaceous and Tertiary of southern Texas and northern Mexico5
- Parahoplitid ammonites and narrowing down the Aptian/Albian boundary interval in northern Iran4
- Upper Aptian-Lower Albian Mural Formation: stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and depositional cycles on the Sonoran shelf, northern Mexico3
- Ammonites from the Dierks Limestone of southern Arkansas3
- Les grès verts helvétiques (Aptien moyen-Albien supérieur) de Haute-Savoie, Valais et Vaud (Alpes occidentales franco-suisses)2
- Texas Cretaceous ammonites and nautiloids2
- Lower Cretaceous stratigraphic units of Northern California2
- Lower Cretaceous deposits in California and Oregon2
- New Cretaceous crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura) from Moscow Oblast and Dagestan (Russia): patterns in phylogeny and morphospace of the oldest eubrachyurans (Dorippoidea)1
- Aptian-Albian Carbonate Platforms: Central Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Northern Spain1
Each of the 65 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 content2

Picture of Parahoplites
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Petruss
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Shellie Luallin
- 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itParahoplitinae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Anthula 1899)