Uhligites
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Uligites is an oppeliid
Oppeliidae
Oppeliidae are compressed to oxyconic, sculptured Haplocerataceae, either unkeeled, unicarinate, bicarinate, or tricarinate; with sutures in great variety, but ribbing usually more or less falcoid or falcate...

 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
Tithonian
In the geologic timescale the Tithonian is the latest age of the Late Jurassic epoch or the uppermost stage of the Upper Jurassic series. It spans the time between 150.8 ± 4 Ma and 145.5 ± 4 Ma...

) sediments in China, India, New Zealand , and Yemen, and the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian
Berriasian
In the geological timescale, the Berriasian is an age or stage of the Early or Lower Creteceous. It is the oldest or lowest subdivision in the entire Cretaceous. It spanned between 145.5 ± 4.0 Ma and 140.2 ± 3.0 Ma...

) sediments, also in Yemen, and in Antarctica.

Related genera include Streblites, Substreblites, and Cyrtosiceras.

References

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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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