Hoplitidae

{{Short description|Family of molluscs (fossil)}} {{expert needed|1=Palaeontology|date=December 2023|reason=Asking if correct to add Gastrohoplites article under Gastroplitinae subfamily?}}

{{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossilrange|Aptian|Cenomanian}} | image = Hoplitidae - Sonneratia duplemteana.JPG | image_caption = Fossil of ''Sonneratia dutempleana'' from France, on display at Galerie de paléontologie et d'anatomie comparée in Paris | taxon = Hoplitidae | authority = Douvillé, 1890 | subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies }}

The '''Hoplitidae''' is a family of Cretaceous ammonites that lived during the middle of the period from the late Aptian to the Cenomanian. They are part of the superfamily Hoplitoidea.

Members of the Hoplitidae are typically evolute, with inner whorls exposed, although some are more involute, and are commonly stout and strongly ribbed, with pronounced tubercles.

The Hoplitidae are thought to be derived from the U Aptian -M Albian ''Uligella'' of the Desmoceratidae, or some related form and have been divided into three subfamilies.

==Subtaxa== Classification of Hoplitidae was revised multiple times during the last few decades. Currently, Hoplitidae contains 3 subfamilies:<ref name=Amedro2014>Amédro, F., Matrion, B., Magniez-Jannin, F., & Touch, R. (2014). La limite Albien inférieur-Albien moyen dans l’Albien type de l’Aube (France): ammonites, foraminifères, séquences. Revue de Paléobiologie, 33(1), 159-279.</ref>

* Gastroplitinae ** ''Freboldiceras'' ** ''Arcthoplites'' ** ?''Sokolovites'' ** ''Pseudopulchellia'' ** ?''Gastrohoplites'' ** ''Gastroplites'' ** ''Irenoceras'' ** ''Neogastroplites'' ** ?''Alopecoceras'' * Sonneratiinae ** ''Bucaillella'' ** ''Sonneratia'' ** ''Pseudosonneratia'' ** ''Anahoplitoides'' ** ''Hemisonneratia'' ** ''Protohoplites'' ** ''Tetrahoplites'' * Hoplitinae ** ''Otohoplites'' ** ''Hoplites'' *** ''Hoplites (Hoplites)'' *** ''Hoplites (Isohoplites)'' ** ''Anahoplites'' ** ''Dimorphoplites'' ** ''Epihoplites'' *** ''Epihoplites (Metaclavites)'' *** ''Epihoplites (Epihoplites)'' ** ''Semenoviceras'' ** ''Callihoplites'' ** ''Pleurohoplites'' *** ''Pleurohoplites (Pleurohoplites)'' *** ''Pleurohoplites (Arrhaphoceras)'' ** ''Euhoplites'' ** ''Hyphoplites'' *** ''Hyphoplites (Hyphoplites)'' *** ''Hyphoplites (Discohoplites)''

==Phylogenetic relations== The Hoplitidae may have given rise to the Schloenbachiidae and seems to be in a different branch of the Hoplitoidea from earlier families included.

==References== {{Reflist}} * Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4, Mesozoic Ammonoidea. R.C. Moore (ed). Geological Soc. of America and Univ Kansas Press (1957) * [https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=97848 Hoplitidae-Paleodb]

Category:Hoplitidae Category:Ammonitida families Category:Hoplitoidea Category:Aptian first appearances Category:Cenomanian extinctions