Scaphitidae is a family of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family of heteromorph ammonites (suborder Ancyloceratina). There is a possible fossil record of them being the last ammonites with fossils dating to the Danian of the Paleocene in Denmark, the Netherlands, the US and Turkmenistan.

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Scaphitidae Temporal range: Early Cretaceous-Early Paleocene, Albian–Danian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Almost certain Danian survival of Hoploscaphites
Scaphites species fossil
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	†Ammonoidea
Order:	†Ammonitida
Suborder:	†Ancyloceratina
Superfamily:	†Scaphitoidea Gill, 1871
Family:	†Scaphitidae Gill, 1871
Subfamilies
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Scaphitidae Gill, 1871

• Subfamily Otoscaphitinae Wright, 1953
  • Yezoites Yabe, 1910
• Subfamily Scaphitinae Gill, 1871
  • Acanthoscaphites Nowak, 1911
  • Clioscaphites Cobban, 1951
  • Discoscaphites Meek, 1870
  • Eoscaphites Breistroffer, 1947
  • Hoploscaphites Nowak, 1911
  • Indoscaphites Spath, 1953
  • Jeletzkytes Riccardi, 1983
  • Ponteixites Warren, 1934
  • Rhaeboceras Meek, 1876
  • Scaphites Parkinson, 1811
  • Trachyscaphites Cobban & Scott, 1964
• Subfamily Incertae sedis
  • Worthoceras Adkins, 1928^[1]