Alternative spelling: Prionocerataceae
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1884. Genera of fossil cephalopods. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 22:253-338
Parent taxon: Tornoceratina according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009
See also Korn 2006, Korn and Klug 2002 and Korn and Sudar 2016
Sister taxa: Karagandoceratoidea, Praeglyphioceratoidea, Pseudohaloritoidea, Tornocerataceae, Tornoceratoidea
Subtaxa: Acrocanitidae Cheiloceratidae Gattendorfiidae Prionoceratidae Pseudarietitidae Voehringeritidae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Malaysia (1 collection)
• Osagean of United States (1: Kentucky)
• Mississippian of United States (1: Missouri)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (20), Australia (3), Austria (6), Canada (1: Yukon), Chile (1), China (8), France (1), Germany (9), Kazakhstan (24), Morocco (9), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (28: Arkansas, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah), Uzbekistan (2)
• Devonian of Australia (22), Austria (2), Canada (1: Alberta), China (5), France (2), Germany (35), Kazakhstan (8), Morocco (32), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (11: New York)
Total: 255 collections including 564 occurrences