Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Prionoceratidae
Synonym: Prionoceras Buckman 1920 [objective synonym]
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1900. Cephalopoda. Textbook of Palaeontology 1:502-604
Parent taxon: Prionoceratidae according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009
See also Arkell et al. 1957, Howarth 2017, Korn 2006, Mesezhnikov 1984, Schairer and Schlampp 2003, Schlegelmilch 1994 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acutimitoceratinae, Balvia, Balviinae, Cunitoceras, Imitoceratinae, Mimimitoceras, Paragattendorfia, Prionoceratinae, Triimitoceras
Subtaxa: Amoeboceras (Amoebites) Amoeboceras (Amoeboceras) Amoeboceras (Euprionoceras) Amoeboceras alternans Prionoceras andrewsi Prionoceras brownense Prionoceras divisum Prionoceras frechi Prionoceras ohioensis Prionoceras sulcatum
Type: Ammonites alternans
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (6 collections), Germany (3), Greenland (3), the Russian Federation (48), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (16), the United Kingdom (3), United States (4: Alaska, California)
• Carboniferous of China (1), Spain (1)
• Devonian of China (1), Kazakhstan (4), Morocco (13), Poland (1)
Total: 104 collections including 161 occurrences
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