{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Albian|ref=<ref name=Amedro2014/>}} | taxon = Otohoplites | authority = Steinmann, 1925 | subdivision_ranks = Species | type_species = ''Ammonites raulinianus'' | type_species_authority = (d'Orbigny, 1841) }}
'''''Otohoplites''''' is a genus of ammonite that lived in the Early Albian age and whose fossils were found in Svalbard, Denmark, England, France, Austria, Poland, Russia and Kazakhstan. It has evolved from ''Hemisonneratia'' and gave rise to the genus ''Hoplites''.<ref name=Amedro2014>Amédro, F., Matrion, B., Magniez-Jannin, F., & Touch, R. (2014). La limite Albien inférieur-Albien moyen dans l’Albien type de l’Aube (France): ammonites, foraminifères, séquences. Revue de Paléobiologie, 33(1), 159-279.</ref> Shells belonging to this genera are rather inflated to compressed and have zigzagging, or looped ribs that end in oblique ventrolateral clavi. Usually, ribs are zigzagging through venter. Macroconchs have a smooth body chamber and rounded venter.<ref name=Wright1996>Wright, C. W. (1996). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4: Cretaceous Ammonoidea (with contributions by JH Calloman (sic) and MK Howarth). Geological Survey of America and University of Kansas, Boulder, Colorado, and Lawrence, Kansas, 362.</ref>
==Species== Currently, there is confusion as to the systematics of this genus and some species may be morphological variants of others. These are some of the species belonging to ''Otohoplites'':<ref name=Amedro2014/> * ''O. auritiformis'' <small>Spath, 1925</small> (''O. sinzowi'' <small>Saveliev, 1973</small> is a junior synonym) * ''O. bulliensis'' <small>Destombes, 1973</small> * ''O. destombesi'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> * ''O. elegans'' <small>Spath, 1925</small> * ''O. glyphus'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> * ''O. guersanti'' <small>(d'Orbigny, 1841)</small> * ''O. icarus'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> * ''O. involutus'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> * ''O. maxinae'' <small>Casey, 1980</small> * ''O. normanniae'' <small>Destombes, Juignet & Rioult, 1974</small> * ''O. waltoni'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> (''O. larcheri'' <small>Destombes, 1979</small> is a junior synonym) * ''O. oweni'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> * ''O. polygonalis'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> * ''O. raulinianus'' <small>(d'Orbigny, 1841)</small> * ''O. simplex'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> * ''O. subchloris'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> * ''O. subguersanti'' <small>Casey, 1965</small> * ''O. subhilli'' <small>Spath, 1942</small> (''O. venustus'' <small>Saveliev, 1973</small> is a junior synonym)
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