Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1921. On Cretaceous Cephalopoda from Zululand. Annals of the South African Museum 12:217-321
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratoidea according to A. Tajika et al. 2018
See also Cooper and Kennedy 1979, Förster 1975, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy et al. 1998, Kennedy and Delamette 1994, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Robert et al. 2009, Szives 2007 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Acanthoceratidae, Brancoceratidae, Cleoniceratidae, Coilopoceratidae, Collignoniceratidae, Flickiidae, Forbesiceratidae, Hystatoceratidae, Leymeriellidae, Mojsisovicsiidae, Peroniceratidae, Prolyelliceratidae, Pseudotissotidae, Pseudotissotiidae, Sphenodiscidae, Tissotiidae, Vascoceratidae
Subtaxa: Eubrancoceras Lyelliceratinae Stoliczkaiellinae
Type: Lyelliceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (3 collections), Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Colombia (14), France (64), India (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), Madagascar (9), Mexico (17), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (1), Palestine (1), Peru (2), South Africa (7), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (67: Arizona, California, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (6)
Total: 212 collections including 340 occurrences