Uhligites
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| Uhligites Temporal range: U Jura (Tith) - L Cret (Berr) |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Ammonitida |
| Family: | Oppeliidae |
| Genus: | Uhligites Kilian 1913 |
Uligites is an oppeliid ammonite included in the subfamily Streblitinae that lived during the latest part of the Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous; from about 150 to 140 m.y.a.
Uhligites has been found in uppermost Jurassic (Tithonian) sediments in China, India, New Zealand , and Yemen, and the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) sediments, also in Yemen, and in Antarctica.
Related genera include Streblites, Substreblites, and Cyrtosiceras.
[edit] References
- Uhligites-Paleodb
- Arkell et al. 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea; Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Geological Society of America.
- D.T, Donovan, Collomon, J.H, and Howarth, M.K 1981. Classification of the Jurassic Ammonitina. The Ammmonoidea; Systematics Association.
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