Hoplitocrioceras is a poorly-known ammonite genus of late Early Hauterivian age that may be endemic to the Neuquén Basin Argentina where it occurs at a clearly defined horizon in the Agrio Formation. It is an unusual genus with uncoiling (crioceratitid) whorls that remain linked by a thick dorsal shell that drapes over the tips of sharp upwardly-pointing ventro-lateral spines. It has been interpreted as either a necomitis or a crioceratitid but is here regarded as one of the last members of the Family Neocomitidae. One new species is proposed: H. giovinei. © 2001 Academic Press.
Documento: | Artículo |
Título: | Lower cretaceous ammonites from the neuquén basin argentina: The hauterivian neocomitid genus hoplitocrioceras(giovine 1950) |
Autor: | Aguirre-Urreta, M.B.; Rawson, P.F. |
Filiación: | Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires 1428, Argentina Department of Geological Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom |
Palabras clave: | Ammonites; Argentian; Biostratigraphy; Lower cretaceous; Lower hauterivian; Neocomitidae; Neuquén basin; biostratigraphy; Cretaceous; Hauterivian; new species; paleontology; Argentina; Neuquen Basin; Ammonoidea; Ammonoidea; Hoplitocriceras; Neocomitidae; Neocomitidae |
Año: | 2001 |
Volumen: | 22 |
Número: | 2 |
Página de inicio: | 201 |
Página de fin: | 218 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/cres.2001.0247 |
Título revista: | Cretaceous Research |
Título revista abreviado: | Cretaceous Res. |
ISSN: | 01956671 |
Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_01956671_v22_n2_p201_AguirreUrreta |