Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Parent taxon: Hoplitidae according to A. Tajika et al. 2018
See also Kennedy et al. 1981, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Mosavinia et al. 2014, Nagy 1970, Sharifi et al. 2016, Szives 2007 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Anahoplitinae, Gastroplitinae, Leymeriellinae, Sonneratiinae, Sulcohoplites
Subtaxa: Arrhaphoceras Callihoplites Dimorphoplites Discohoplites Epihoplites Euhoplites Hoplites Hyphoplites Pleurohoplites Semenoviceras
Type: Hoplites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), Brazil (1), Cameroon (1), France (45), Germany (2), Greenland (1), Iran (13), Kazakhstan (3), Mexico (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (15), Switzerland (2), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (17), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1)
Total: 114 collections including 193 occurrences