Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Invalid subtaxa: Prionocyclidae Breistroffer 1947 [replaced name], Prionotropidae Zittel 1865 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratoidea according to W. J. Kennedy and A. S. Gale 2016
See also Cobban and Kennedy 1992, Futakami 1990, Futakami 1991, Gebhardt 2001, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy and Christensen 1991, Kennedy and Cobban 1991, Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy et al. 2001, Kennedy et al. 2007, Kennedy and Gale 2015, Kennedy and Wright 1983, Klinger and Kennedy 1980, Klinger and Kennedy 1984, Meister et al. 1992, Riccardi 1981, Summesberger 1979, Summesberger 1992 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Acanthoceratidae, Brancoceratidae, Cleoniceratidae, Coilopoceratidae, Flickiidae, Forbesiceratidae, Hystatoceratidae, Leymeriellidae, Lyelliceratidae, Mojsisovicsiidae, Peroniceratidae, Prolyelliceratidae, Pseudotissotidae, Pseudotissotiidae, Sphenodiscidae, Tissotiidae, Vascoceratidae
Subtaxa: Barroisiceratinae Collignoniceratinae Peroniceratinae Texanitinae
Type: Collignoniceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (7 collections), Antarctica (1), Armenia (1), Australia (1), Austria (5), Brazil (22), Cameroon (15), Canada (13: Alberta, British Columbia), Colombia (1), Cuba (1), Denmark (4), Egypt (1), France (160), Gabon (4), Germany (15), Haiti (2), Hungary (1), India (1), Israel (6), Japan (28), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (5), Mexico (13), Niger (1), Nigeria (8), Peru (7), Poland (1), Puerto Rico (1), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (35), Spain (8), Tunisia (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (213: Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wyoming), Venezuela (10)
Total: 604 collections including 882 occurrences