Parahoplitidae Temporal range:
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Dufrenoya dufrenoyi from France | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
Order: | †Ammonitida |
Suborder: | †Ancyloceratina |
Superfamily: | †Deshayesitoidea |
Family: | †Parahoplitidae Spath, 1922 |
Subfamilies | |
See text |
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.
The family contains two subfamilies and eight genera.[1]