Parahoplitidae

Parahoplitidae
Temporal range:
Dufrenoya dufrenoyi from France
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Ammonitida
Suborder: Ancyloceratina
Superfamily: Deshayesitoidea
Family:
Spath, 1922
Subfamilies

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

Subfamilies and genera

The family contains two subfamilies and eight genera.[1]

  • Deshayesitinae Stoyanow, 1949
    • Deshayesites Kazansky, 1914
    • Dufrenoyia Kilian and Reboul, 1915
    • Diadochoceras Hyatt, 1900
    • Hypacanthoplites Spath, 1923
  • Parahoplitinae Spath, 1922
    • Kazanskyella Stoyanow, 1949
    • Parahoplites Anthula, 1899
    • Sinzowiella Stoyanow, 1949
    • Parahoplitoides Spath, 1922

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