Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratidae according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Ahmad et al. 2013, Barroso-Barcenilla 2004, Cooper 1978, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Gale et al. 2005, Gale et al. 2018, Ifrim and Stinnesbeck 2007, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Kennedy et al. 1987, Meister et al. 1994, Meister et al. 1992, Mosavinia and Wilmsen 2011, Sharifi et al. 2016 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Euomphaloceratinae, Mammitinae, Mantelliceratinae, Roemeroceras
Subtaxa: Acanthoceras Acompsoceras Alzadites Benueites Calycoceras Conlinoceras Cunningtoniceras Eucalycoceras Kastanoceras Kennediella Kunnamiceras Microsulcatoceras Nebraskites Neocardioceras Nigericeras Paraconlinoceras Plesiacanthoceratoides Prohauericeras Protacanthoceras Pseudocalycoceras Pseudovascoceras Quitmaniceras Sumitomoceras Tarrantoceras Thomelites Watinoceras
Type: Acanthoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (6 collections), Angola (7), Antarctica (6), Australia (5), Brazil (17), Bulgaria (14), Cameroon (3), Canada (7: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories), Colombia (5), Denmark (1), Egypt (7), France (13), Germany (32), India (14), Iran (3), Japan (3), Jordan (2), Kazakhstan (1), Libya (3), Madagascar (8), Mexico (7), Mozambique (3), Niger (17), Nigeria (29), Oman (1), Papua New Guinea (7), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (3), Switzerland (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (31), United States (227: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming), Venezuela (6)
Total: 496 collections including 706 occurrences