Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Coeloceratidae
Synonyms: Pimelitidae Wiedenmayer 1977, Pimelitinae Wiedenmayer 1977
Parent taxon: Eoderoceratoidea according to M. K. Howarth 2013
See also Blau 1998, Donovan and Surlyk 2003, Geczy and Meister 2007, Hillebrandt 2006, Meister et al. 2012 and Sarih et al. 2007
Sister taxa: Dactylioceratidae, Eoderoceratidae, Liparoceratidae, Phricodoceratidae, Polymorphitidae
Subtaxa: Andicoeloceras Apoderoceras Bakonyceras Coeloceras Coeloceratinae Meridiceras Miltoceras Pimelites Praesphaeroceras Pseudoskirroceras Tetraspidoceras Zamaiceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Argentina (10 collections), Austria (3), Canada (33: British Columbia), Chile (22), Denmark (1), Egypt (2), France (2), Hungary (21), Indonesia (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Morocco (13), Peru (4), Portugal (9), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Tunisia (4), Turkey (4), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (13)
Total: 151 collections including 216 occurrences