Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Full reference: M. R. Cooper. 1978. Uppermost Cenomanian-basal Turonian ammonites from Salinas, Angola. Annals of the South African Museum 75(5):51-152
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratidae according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Aly et al. 2008, Barroso-Barcenilla 2004, Barroso-Barcenilla 2007, Benzaggagh et al. 2017, Cooper 1978, Gale et al. 2005, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy and Cobban 1988, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Summesberger 1992 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Acanthoceratinae, Mammitinae, Mantelliceratinae
Subtaxa: Burroceras Codazziceras Euomphaloceras Hourcqiceras Kamerunoceras Lotzeites Morrowites Paraburroceras Paramammites Pseudaspidoceras Romaniceras
Type: Euomphaloceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (3 collections), Angola (5), Austria (2), Brazil (15), Cameroon (6), Canada (1: British Columbia), Colombia (3), Egypt (6), France (13), Gabon (2), Germany (7), India (3), Japan (7), Jordan (4), Libya (3), Mexico (13), Morocco (2), Niger (5), Nigeria (25), Oman (1), Papua New Guinea (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (6), Tunisia (12), USSR (2), United States (91: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (5)
Total: 249 collections including 317 occurrences