†family Trigonoceratidae Hyatt 1884 (mollusk)

Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae

Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1884. Genera of fossil cephalopods. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 22:253-338

Parent taxon: Trigonoceratoidea according to D. Korn 2025

See also Hyatt 1894, Korn et al. 2022, Niko and Mapes 2007 and Teichert et al. 1964

Sister taxa: Dasbergoceratidae, Grypoceratidae, Temnocheilidae, Thrincoceratidae

Subtaxa: Chouteauoceratinae Coelonautilus Trigonoceratinae Vestinautilinae

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Type: Trigonoceras

Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (1 collection), Kazakhstan (1), Pakistan (1)

• Carboniferous to Permian of Japan (2)

• Carboniferous of Algeria (1), Australia (2), Ireland (15), Kazakhstan (5), Morocco (3), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (4), United States (3: Arkansas, Indiana, Oklahoma)

Total: 45 collections including 54 occurrences

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