Otohoplites
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Otohoplites Temporal range: Albian |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Suborder: | Ammonitina |
| Superfamily: | Hoplitaceae |
| Family: | Hoplitidae |
| Subfamily: | Hoplitinae |
| Genus: |
Otohoplites Steinmann, 1925 |
| Type species | |
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Ammonites raulinianus d'Orbigny, 1841 |
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Otohoplites is a genus of ammonite that lived in the Early Albian and whose fossils were found in Svalbard, Denmark, England, France, Austria, Poland, Russia and Kazakhstan. It has evolved from Hemisonneratia and gave rise to genus Hoplites. Shells belonging to this genera are rather inflated to compressed and have zigzaging, or looped ribs that ends in oblique ventrolateral clavi. Usually, ribs are zigzaging through venter. Macroconchs have smooth body chamber and rounded venter.
Currently, there is a confusion in the systematics of this genus and some species can be just morphological variants of others. These are some of the species belonging to Otohoplites:
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