Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1900. Cephalopoda. Textbook of Palaeontology 1:502-604
Parent taxon: Hoplitoidea according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Aly et al. 2008, Bulot 2010, El Qot 2018, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy et al. 1998, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Lucas and Estep 1998, Meister et al. 1994, Meister et al. 1992, Robert et al. 2018, Szives 2007 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Forbesiceridae, Hoplitidae, Placenticeratidae, Schloenbachiidae
Subtaxa: Engonoceras Metengonoceras Neolobites Protengonoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (6 collections), Bolivia (1), Canada (1: Alberta), Egypt (19), France (1), Jordan (6), Madagascar (1), Mexico (6), Niger (7), Nigeria (2), Oman (1), Peru (2), Puerto Rico (1), Spain (8), Tunisia (4), United States (66: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 132 collections including 147 occurrences