''Anahoplites'' is a genus of rather involute, compressed hoplitid

ammonites Ammonoids are a group of extinct marine mollusc animals in the subclass Ammonoidea of the class Cephalopoda. These molluscs, commonly referred to as ammonites, are more closely related to living coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid and cuttlefish) ...

with flat sides, narrow flat or grooved venters, and flexious ribs or striae arising from weak umbilicle tubercles that end in fine dense ventrolateral nodes. The elements of their sutures are short, wide and jaggedy. Specimens of ''Annahoplites'' have diameters typically in the range of although some with diameters of as much as have been reported. The genus lived during the Cretaceous, from the Middle to the late Albian. ''Anahoplites'' is now included in the subfamily Anahoplitinae and separated from the Hoplitinae where it was placed in the older, 1957 edition of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L (Ammonoidea). Genera of the Hoplitinae tend to be more robust, with broader whorls and stronger ribs. ''Anahoplites'' is found in Europe, from England to the transcaspian region in western Asia.

References

* *Ryszard Marcinowski and Jost Wiedmann.The Albian Ammonites of Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica no. 50, 1990 Early Cretaceous ammonites of Europe Hoplitidae Ammonitida genera {{Ammonitina-stub