Holcodiscidae

{{Short description|Extinct family of ammonites}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossilrange|140.2|84.9|Cretaceous}}

| image = Holcodiscidae - Spitidiscus species.JPG

| image_caption = Spitidiscus species from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

| taxon = Holcodiscidae

| authority = Spath, 1923

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Holcodiscidae is an ammonite family placed in the superfamily Desmoceratoidea.{{cite web |title = Holcodiscidae |publisher= Paleobiology Database |accessdate= 30 December 2021 |url= https://paleobiodb.org/classic/basicTaxonInfo?taxon_no=131208}} [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61988855 Wright, C. W. with J.H. Callomon and M.K. Howarth (1996), Mollusca 4 Revised, Cretaceous Ammonoidea, vol. 4], in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Roger L. Kaesler et al. eds.), Boulder, Colorado: The Geological Society of America & Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, p. 48.

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.Tzankov, V. & Breskovski, S. (1982), "Volume et contenu de la famille Holcodiscidae Spath, 1924," C.R. Acad. bulg. Sci., 35, 4, 491-93.

Genera

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.

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