Dufrenoyia

Dufrenoyia Temporal range: Cretaceous, 125.45–112.6 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil shell of Dufrenoyia 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
Genus:	Dufrenoyia Kilian and Reboul 1915

Dufrenoyia is an extinct genus of Cretaceous ammonites included in the family Parahoplitidae. These fast-moving nektonic carnivores lived in the Cretaceous period (Aptian age). The type species of the genus is Ammonites dufrenoyi.

Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Cretaceous sediments of Germany, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, the United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.