Hemihoplitidae is an extinct family of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the superfamily

Ancyloceratoidea Ancyloceratoidea, formerly Ancylocerataceae, is a superfamily of typically uncoiled and loosely coiled heteromorph ammonoids established by Alpheus Hyatt in 1900, that may contain as many as 11 families, depending on the classification accepted ...

. Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the

Cretaceous The Cretaceous ( ) is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya). It is the third and final period of the Mesozoic Era, as well as the longest. At around 79 million years, it is the longest geological period of th ...

rocks of southeastern France, Mexico, Slovakia, South Africa and Trinidad and Tobago.

Genera

* '' Gassendiceras'' Bert, Delanoy & Bersac, 2006 * '' Hemihoplites'' Spath, 1924

References

Ancyloceratoidea Ammonitida families Cretaceous ammonites Valanginian first appearances Early Cretaceous extinctions {{Ammonitida-stub