Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Parent taxon: Diplomoceratidae according to D. Dochev and L. Metodiev 2016
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cobban and Kennedy 1992, Gane et al. 2016, Henderson et al. 1992, Ifrim et al. 2015, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1986, Kennedy 1993, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 1999, Kennedy and Christennsen 1993, Kennedy and Christensen 1991, Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy and Cobban 1994, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy et al. 2000, Kennedy et al. 1992, Kennedy and Kaplan 1995, Kennedy et al. 2001, Kennedy and Summesberger 1999, Macellari 1986, Matsumoto 1984, Niebuhr et al. 2016, Summesberger 1979, Szives 2007 and Ward and Kennedy 1993
Sister taxa: Astreptoceras, Eudiplomoceras, Masonites, Polyptychoceratinae, Ryugasella, Schlueterella
Subtaxa: Chesapeakiceras Diplomoceras Glyptoxoceras Lewyites Neancyloceras Neocrioceras Neoglyptoxoceras Scalarites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (42 collections), Armenia (1), Australia (15), Austria (4), Belgium (5), Brazil (3), Bulgaria (3), Canada (3: British Columbia), Chile (5), Colombia (2), Denmark (16), France (31), Germany (5), Greenland (1), India (1), Iran (14), Iraq (2), Japan (28), Madagascar (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (2), New Zealand (2), Oman (3), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (3), Spain (2), Sweden (1), Tajikistan (2), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (3), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (115: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington), Venezuela (1)
Total: 324 collections including 366 occurrences