Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Flickiidae
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratoidea according to W. J. Kennedy and H. C. Klinger 2008
See also Kennedy 2005, Klinger and Kennedy 1994, Szives 2007 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Acanthoceratidae, Brancoceratidae, Cleoniceratidae, Coilopoceratidae, Collignoniceratidae, Forbesiceratidae, Hystatoceratidae, Leymeriellidae, Lyelliceratidae, Mojsisovicsiidae, Peroniceratidae, Prolyelliceratidae, Pseudotissotidae, Pseudotissotiidae, Sphenodiscidae, Tissotiidae, Vascoceratidae
Subtaxa: Flickiinae Salaziceratinae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (4 collections), France (6), Japan (2), Madagascar (6), Mexico (1), South Africa (2), Tunisia (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: Texas)
Total: 35 collections including 44 occurrences