Parahoplitidae

Parahoplitidae
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
Fossil shell of Dufrenoya dufrenoyi from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Superfamily: Deshayesitaceae
Family: Parahoplitidae
Spath 1922

Parahoplitidae is an extinct family of Cretaceous ammonites with stoutly ribbed, compressed, generally involute shells lacking or with only minor tubercles included in the Deshayestaceae, a superfamily now separated from the Hoplitacaceae.

Subfamilies and genera

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