Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae
Parent taxon: Asteroceratidae according to M. Edmunds et al. 2016
See also Blau 1998, Bremer 1965, Corna and Dommergues 1995, Geczy and Meister 2007, Howarth 2013, Meister and Friebe 2003 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Aegasteroceras, Arctoasteroceras, Bagnolites, Caenisites, Eparietites, Epophioceras, Epophioceroides, Euerbenites, Parasteroceras, Protechioceras, Ptycharietites, Tmaegophioceras
Subtaxa: Asteroceras acceleratum Asteroceras blakei Asteroceras confusum Asteroceras dommerguesi Asteroceras margarita Asteroceras margaritoides Asteroceras obtusum Asteroceras retusum Asteroceras reynesi Asteroceras saltriensis Asteroceras smithi Asteroceras stellare Asteroceras suevicum
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Algeria (1 collection), Austria (10), Canada (10: Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (1), China (3), France (3), Germany (3), Hong Kong (1), Hungary (7), Mexico (3), Morocco (12), Portugal (1), Türkiye (3), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (5: California, Nevada)
Total: 77 collections including 91 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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