Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Parent taxon: Collignoniceratidae according to O. Szives 2007
See also Cobban and Kennedy 1992, Főzy 2001, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy and Christensen 1991, Kennedy and Cobban 1991, Kennedy and Cobban 1993, Kennedy et al. 1997, Kennedy et al. 1973, Klinger and Kennedy 1980, Matsumoto 1959, Riccardi 1981 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Barroisiceratinae, Collignoniceratinae, Peroniceratinae
Subtaxa: Aneuretoceras Bevahites Cryptotexanites Defordiceras Menabites Neogauthiericeras Paratexanites Pleurotexanites Protexanites Reginaites Submortoniceras Texanites
Type: Texanites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (3 collections), Austria (2), Brazil (1), Cameroon (4), Canada (1: British Columbia), Cuba (1), Denmark (3), France (63), Gabon (1), Germany (1), Haiti (1), Hungary (1), Japan (11), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (3), Nigeria (1), Peru (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (19), Spain (7), United States (55: Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (2)
Total: 187 collections including 253 occurrences