Older degree of parallelism DDL syntax causes parsing exception

Got ddl statement parsing error for the below sql.

'CREATE TABLE T$BO_PATIENT_LMAP NOLOGGING TABLESPACE CMX_TEMP_TDE PARALLEL (DEGREE 1) AS SELECT DISTINCT XREF.O
RIG_ROWID_OBJECT, XREF.ROWID_OBJECT FROM C_S_PATIENT STAGE INNER JOIN C_BO_PATIENT_XREF XREF ON XREF.ORIG_ROWID_O
BJECT = STAGE.ROWID_OBJECT WHERE STAGE.ROWID_OBJECT IS NOT NULL ;'
mismatched input '(' expecting {'AS', 'USAGE', ';'}