Alternative spellings: Acanthoceratacea, Acanthocerataceae
Parent taxon: Ammonitina according to A. Tajika et al. 2018
See also Ahmad et al. 2013, Ahmad et al. 2015, Aly et al. 2008, Arkadiev et al. 2000, Barroso-Barcenilla 2007, Benzaggagh et al. 2017, Cobban 1988, Cooper 1978, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Gale et al. 2005, Gebhardt 2001, Henderson 1990, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy 1999, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy and Christensen 1991, Kennedy and Cobban 1988, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy and Cobban 1996, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy et al. 1998, Kennedy et al. 2007, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Gale 2015, Kennedy and Gale 2016, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Klinger 2011, Kennedy and Klinger 2012, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Klinger and Kennedy 1984, Landman and Cobban 2003, Lehmann et al. 2016, Lehmann et al. 2013, Mosavinia et al. 2014, Mosavinia et al. 2007, Riccardi 1981, Sharifi et al. 2016, Summesberger 1979, Summesberger 1992, Szives 2007, Wiedmann 1978, Wright 1952 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Aspidoceratoidea, Deshayesitoidea, Desmoceratoidea, Engonoceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hammatoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea, Hoplitoidea, Lytoceratoidea, Oppeliaceae, Perisphinctaceae, Perisphinctoidea, Psiloceratoidea, Pulchelliaceae, Sphaeroceratoidea, Spiroceratoidea, Stephanoceratoidea, Tetragonitoidea, Nannolytoceratidae, Crioceratitaceae, Protetragonitidae, Hamitaceae
Subtaxa: Acanthoceratidae Brancoceratidae Cleoniceratidae Coilopoceratidae Collignoniceratidae Flickiidae Forbesiceratidae Hystatoceratidae Leymeriellidae Lyelliceratidae Mojsisovicsiidae Peroniceratidae Prolyelliceratidae Pseudotissotidae Pseudotissotiidae Sphenodiscidae Tissotiidae Vascoceratidae
Type: Acanthoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore