Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratidae according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Ahmad et al. 2013, Barroso-Barcenilla 2004, Cooper 1978, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Gale et al. 2005, Gale et al. 2018, Ifrim and Stinnesbeck 2007, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Kennedy et al. 1987, Meister et al. 1994, Meister et al. 1992, Mosavinia and Wilmsen 2011, Sharifi et al. 2016, Wright 1952 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Euomphaloceratinae, Mammitinae, Mantelliceratinae
Subtaxa: Acanthoceras Acompsoceras Alzadites Benueites Calycoceras Conlinoceras Cunningtoniceras Eucalycoceras Kastanoceras Kennediella Kunnamiceras Microsulcatoceras Nebraskites Neocardioceras Nigericeras Paraconlinoceras Plesiacanthoceratoides Prohauericeras Protacanthoceras Pseudocalycoceras Pseudovascoceras Quitmaniceras Tarrantoceras Thomelites Watinoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (6 collections), Angola (7), Antarctica (6), Australia (5), Brazil (17), Bulgaria (14), Cameroon (3), Canada (7: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories), Colombia (5), Denmark (1), Egypt (7), France (32), Germany (32), India (15), Iran (3), Japan (3), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (3), Madagascar (8), Mexico (8), Mozambique (3), Niger (17), Nigeria (29), Oman (1), Papua New Guinea (7), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (4), Switzerland (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (34), United States (248: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (6)
Total: 542 collections including 839 occurrences