Parahoplitidae Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous |
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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.