''Callihoplites'' is a genus of rather evolute

ammonite Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...

s from the Lower Cretaceous, Late

Albian The Albian is both an age of the geologic timescale and a stage in the stratigraphic column. It is the youngest or uppermost subdivision of the Early/Lower Cretaceous Epoch/Series. Its approximate time range is 113.0 ± 1.0 Ma to 100.5 ± 0.9 M ...

. Its whorl section squarish or compressed, inner whorls bearing umbilical bullae and ventrolateral clavi, with or without looped ribs between. The body chamber is smooth with a rounded venter. ''Callihoplites'' is a member of the ammonitid family

Hoplitidae The Hoplitidae is a family of Cretaceous ammonites that lived during the middle of the period from the late Aptian to the Cenomanian. They are part of the superfamily Hoplitoidea. Members of the Hoplitidae are typically evolute, with inner whor ...

and superfamily

Hoplitoidea Hoplitoidea, formerly Hoplitaceae, is a superfamily of mostly Upper Cretaceous ammonites comprising families united by a similar suture pattern with multiple similar elements that tend to decrease in size going toward the umbi ...

, now also known as the Hoplitoidea.

References

* Ammonites of Europe Hoplitidae Ammonitida genera Cretaceous ammonites Albian life Albian genus extinctions {{ammonitina-stub