Holcodiscidae

Holcodiscidae is an ammonite family placed in the superfamily Desmoceratoidea.

Holcodiscidae Temporal range:
Spitidiscus species from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Superfamily:	†Desmoceratoidea
Family:	†Holcodiscidae Spath, 1923
Synonyms
Astieridiscidae Tzankov & Breskovski, 1982; Metahoplidae Tzankov & Breskovski, 1982

Description

Moderately involute with rounded, rectangular, or depressed whorl section; straight or sinuous, fine, dense ribs typically continuing over venter and may be periodically truncated by oblique, enlarged ribs, with or without umbilical, lateral and ventrolateral tubercles. Suture rather simple.

Genera

• Astieridiscus
• Holcodiscus
• Jeanthieuloyites
• Parasaynoceras
• Spitidiscus

Distribution

Fossils of species within this family have been found in the Cretaceous sediments in Argentina, Austria, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Russia.

External links

• "Holcodiscidae". mindat.org. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
• "Holcodiscidae". Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Retrieved 30 December 2021.
• Wright C.W. with J.H. Callomon and M.K. Howarth (1996). "Mollusca 4 Revised: Cretaceous Ammonoidea". In Roger L. Kaesler (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Vol. 4. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: The Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press. p. 48 – via Internet Archive.
• Arkell, W. J.; Furnish, W. M.; Kummel, Bernhard; Miller, A.K.; Moore, R.C.; Schindewolf, O.H. (1957). "Part L, Mollusca 4: Cephalopoda, Ammonoidea". In Raymond C. Moore (ed.). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press. p. L371 – via Internet Archive.