If you look in the Tur Yoreh Deah Siman 168 (so too the Shulchan Aruch), you'll notice that there's nothing there.
Was it lost sometime in history? It looks like the Shulchan Aruch also didn't have anything there, so it should have been lost not long after publication (they lived around two hundred years apart).
Answer
In the footnote of the Machon Yerushalayim edition of the Tur, he explains that various editions of the Tur with different commentaries divided up the sections differently - one missing a siman (not 168), another dividing up a siman into 2 or more simanim. So in order to line up the Tur with all its major commentaries it was decided in more recent editions to skip/merge siman 168.
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