Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
Alternative spelling: Cleoniceratinae
Synonym: Lemuroceratinae Owen 1988
Full reference: F. W. Whitehouse. 1926. The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of Eastern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 8(3):195-242
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratoidea according to J. Lehmann et al. 2016
See also Alabushev 1995, Kennedy et al. 1981, Kennedy and Klinger 2012, Lehmann et al. 2013, Nagy 1970, Szives 2007, Whitehouse 1926 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Acanthoceratidae, Brancoceratidae, Coilopoceratidae, Collignoniceratidae, Flickiidae, Forbesiceratidae, Hystatoceratidae, Leymeriellidae, Lyelliceratidae, Mojsisovicsiidae, Peroniceratidae, Prolyelliceratidae, Pseudotissotidae, Pseudotissotiidae, Sphenodiscidae, Tissotiidae, Vascoceratidae
Subtaxa: Arcthoplitinae Cleogastroplites Cleoniceras Grycia Lemuroceras Moretella Pachygrycia Tetrahoplitoides Vnigriceratinae
Type: Cleoniceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2 collections), Canada (28: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Denmark (2), Germany (4), Greenland (4), Iran (1), Japan (1), Madagascar (7), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (10), South Africa (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (27), the United Kingdom (20), United States (14: Alaska, California, Oregon)
Total: 123 collections including 231 occurrences