Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Parent taxon: Hoplitoidea according to A. Tajika et al. 2018
See also Cecca 1997, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 1980, Kennedy et al. 1981, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Lehmann et al. 2013, Mosavinia et al. 2014, Nagy 1970, Sharifi et al. 2016, Szives 2007 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Engonoceratidae, Forbesiceridae, Placenticeratidae, Schloenbachiidae
Subtaxa: Anahoplitinae Gastroplitinae Hoplitinae Leymeriellinae Sonneratiinae Sulcohoplites
Type: Hoplites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Belgium (1 collection), Brazil (2), Cameroon (1), Canada (45: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), France (51), Germany (3), Greenland (2), Iran (17), Kazakhstan (3), Madagascar (3), Mexico (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (26), Switzerland (2), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (37), United States (9: California, Montana, Texas, Wyoming)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1)
Total: 221 collections including 427 occurrences