Alternative spelling: Prionocerataceae
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1884. Genera of fossil cephalopods. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 22:253-338
Parent taxon: Tornoceratina according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009
See also Korn 2006, Korn and Klug 2002 and Korn and Sudar 2016
Sister taxa: Karagandoceratoidea, Praeglyphioceratoidea, Pseudohaloritoidea, Tornocerataceae, Tornoceratoidea
Subtaxa: Acrocanitidae Cheiloceratidae Gattendorfiidae Prionoceratidae Pseudarietitidae Voehringeritidae
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)
• Permian of Malaysia (1)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (20), Australia (3), Austria (6), Canada (1: Yukon), Chile (1), China (8), France (1), Germany (9), Kazakhstan (24), Morocco (9), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Serbia (5), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (30: Arkansas, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah), Uzbekistan (2)
• Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (22), Austria (2), Canada (1: Alberta), China (5), France (2), Germany (37), Kazakhstan (8), Morocco (32), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (11: New York)
Total: 345 collections including 712 occurrences