Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae
Alternative spelling: Asteroceratinae
Parent taxon: Psiloceratoidea according to M. Edmunds et al. 2016
See also Blau 1998, Bremer 1965, Corna and Dommergues 1995, Geczy and Meister 2007, Howarth 2013 and Meister and Friebe 2003
Sister taxa: Arietitidae, Cymbitidae, Echioceratidae, Oxynoticeratidae, Phyllytoceratidae, Psiloceratidae, Schlotheimiidae, Oxyarietites
Subtaxa: Aegasteroceras Arctoasteroceras Asteroceras Bagnolites Caenisites Eparietites Epophioceras Epophioceroides Euerbenites Parasteroceras Protechioceras Ptycharietites Tmaegophioceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Argentina (4 collections), Austria (13), Canada (35: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (5), China (4), France (5), Germany (11), Hong Kong (1), Hungary (15), Italy (1), Mexico (15), Morocco (17), Portugal (18), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Tunisia (3), Turkey (5), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (21), United States (12: California, Nevada)
Total: 188 collections including 274 occurrences