Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Alternative spellings: Crioceratinae, Crioceratitinae
Synonym: Pedioceratidae Hyatt 1900
Parent taxon: Perisphinctoidea according to D. Bert et al. 2021
See also Cantu-Chapa 1962, Klein et al. 2007, Klinger and Kennedy 1992, Reboulet 1996 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acantholytoceras Aspinoceras Australopseudothurmannia Balearites Binelliceras Crioceratites Diamanticeras Epanisoceras Menuthiocrioceras Paracostidiscus Paraemericiceras Pseudothurmannia Sornayites Spathicrioceras Spinocrioceras Subaspinoceras Theodorites Vutacuracrioceras
Type: Crioceratites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2 collections), Argentina (35), Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (60), Colombia (4), the Czech Republic (4), Egypt (5), France (98), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Hungary (14), Italy (25), Japan (2), Madagascar (5), Mexico (3), Morocco (16), Mozambique (1), Portugal (3), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (11), South Africa (6), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Spain (44), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (17), Ukraine (1), United States (12: California, Oregon), Yemen (1)
• Jurassic of United States (2: California)
Total: 386 collections including 573 occurrences