Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Alternative spelling: Mortoniceratidae
Synonyms: Arestoceratidae van Hoepen 1942, Arestoceratinae van Hoepen 1942, Cainoceratidae van Hoepen 1942, Cainoceratinae van Hoepen 1942, Drepanoceratidae van Hoepen 1941, Drepanoceratinae van Hoepen 1941, Inflaticeratidae Spath 1921, Inflaticeratinae Spath 1921, Pervinquieriinae Spath 1926
Parent taxon: Brancoceratidae according to W. J. Kennedy and N. J. Morris 2018
See also Anderson 1958, Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy et al. 1998, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Mosavinia et al. 2007, Sharifi et al. 2016, Szives 2007 and Wright 1952
Sister taxon: Brancoceratinae
Subtaxa: Algericeras Arestoceras Elobiceras Euhystrichoceras Goodhallites Mortoniceras Neoharpoceras Pervinquieria Prohysteroceras
Type: Mortoniceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2 collections), Angola (32), Armenia (1), Australia (9), Belgium (1), Brazil (4), Canada (5: British Columbia), Colombia (38), Ecuador (1), Egypt (5), Equatorial Guinea (2), France (39), Germany (1), Iran (4), Japan (2), Madagascar (10), Mexico (4), Mozambique (6), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Nigeria (21), North Atlantic (3), Serbia (1), South Africa (6), Spain (3), Switzerland (3), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (34: California, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (4), Virgin Islands (1)
Total: 250 collections including 515 occurrences