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Hoplites

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hoplitidae

Taxonomy
Hoplites was named as a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Hoplitidae, Hoplitaceaea, Hoplitinae.

It was reranked as Neoptychites (Hoplites) by van Koenen (1897).

It was assigned to Neoptychites by van Koenen (1897); to Ammonoidea by Stanton (1895) and Sepkoski (2002); and to Hoplitinae by Nagy (1970), Wright et al. (1996) and Tajika et al. (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1895Hoplites Stanton p. 79
1897Neoptychites (Hoplites) van Koenen
1970Hoplites Nagy p. 32
1996Hoplites Wright et al. p. 117
2002Hoplites Sepkoski
2018Hoplites Tajika et al. p. 69 fig. 2m,n

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAmmonitinaHyatt 1889
superfamilyHoplitoidea(Douvillé 1890)
familyHoplitidaeDouvillé 1890
subfamilyHoplitinaeDouvillé 1890
genusHoplites

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Hoplites
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Subg. †Hoplites (Hoplites) Neumayr 1875
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Subg. †Hoplites (Isohoplites) Casey 1954
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Isohoplites steinmanni Jacob 1907
Hoplites aguilearae Böse 1923
Hoplites obtusenodosa Retowski 1893
Hoplites symonensis Böse 1923
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available