Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
Alternative spellings: Kionoceratinae, Kionoceratinae
Parent taxon: Orthocerida according to B. Kröger 2008
See also Chen et al. 1981, Dzik and Kiselev 1995, Kröger and Isakar 2006, Strand 1934 and Sweet 1964
Sister taxa: Acrosphaerorthoceras, Aptychopsis, Arionoceratidae, Arterioceras, Badouceras, Baltoceratidae, Bogoslovskya, Brachycycloceratidae, Chicagooceras, Cornuella, Cryptocycloceras, Cycloceras, Dictyoceras, Esopoceras, Folioceras, Garryoceras, Heloceras, Jangziceras, Joldagiroceras, Kentronites, Loxoceras, Mericoceras, Molossus, Murchisoniceras, Naivs, Nebroceras, Neorthoceras, Orthoceratidae, Orthoceratina, Orthodochmiocerataceae, Paradnatoceras, Paramooreoceras, Plicatoceras, Podoliceras, Proteoceratidae, Pseudorthocerataceae, Pseudorthoceratoidea, Pythonoceras, Rhabdites, Rhipsites, Sactorthoceratidae, Sannionites, Sichuanaceras, Sichuanoceratidae, Sphaerorthoceratidae, Sphaerortoceratidae, Subspyroceras, Tartaroceras, Tretoceras, Tripteroceratidae, Trispectes, Uralharuspex, Vericeras, Zhuralevia, Striatoceratidae, Engorthoceratidae, Eskimoceratidae, Cycloceratidae, Michelinoceratidae, Choanoceratidae, Allumettoceratidae
Subtaxa: Kionoceras Nothokionoceras Ohioceras Polygrammoceras Thoracoceras
Type: Kionoceras
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (3: Oklahoma collections)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Brazil (1), Canada (2: New Brunswick, Quebec), United States (3: New York)
• Niagaran of United States (2: Indiana, Ohio)
• Silurian of Canada (13: Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec), China (5), the Czech Republic (2), Greenland (2), Ireland (2), Italy (2), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (20), United States (21: Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New York, Wisconsin)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (7: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), China (4), Norway (8), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (42: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, New York, Virginia, Wyoming)
Total: 154 collections including 177 occurrences