| 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.