†family Paracenoceratidae Spath 1927 (nautiloid)
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Paracenoceratidae
Parent taxon: Nautilitaceae according to C. Teichert et al. 1964
See also Benavides-Caceres 1956
Sister taxa: Aturiidae, Cenoceratidae, Cymatoceratidae, Hercoglossidae, Nautilidae, Pseudonautilidae
Subtaxa: Aulacenoceras Paracenoceras Somalinautilus Tithonoceras
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Egypt (1 collection), Ethiopia (3), France (10), Germany (1), India (7), Madagascar (10), Morocco (1), Pakistan (2), Saudi Arabia (25), Somalia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (14), Tanzania (5), Tunisia (16), the United Kingdom (1), Yemen (2)
Total: 101 collections including 127 occurrences