†family Ancyloceratidae Gill 1871 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae

Parent taxon: Ancylocerataceae according to E. Robert et al. 2018

See also Aguirre-Urreta 1986, Cantu-Chapa 1962, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, Delanoy and Baudouin 2023, Delanoy et al. 2013, Förster 1975, Frau et al. 2016, Kakabadze and Hoedemaeker 1997, Klinger and Kennedy 1992, Landra et al. 2000, Murphy 1975, Ovando-Figueroa et al. 2018, Reboulet 1996, Szives 2007 and Wright 1952

Sister taxa: Acrioceratidae, Hemihoplitidae, Heteroceratidae, Himantoceratidae, Labeceratidae, Leptoceratoididae, Macroscaphitidae, Paraspiticeras, Ptychoceratidae

Subtaxa: Ammonitoceras Ancyloceratinae Anisoceratinae Colchidites Koeneniceras Leptoceratinae Lithancylus Paracrioceras Pedioceras Pseudoaustraliceras Pseudocrioceras Shastoceras Tonoceras Volgoceratoides Xerticeras

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Type: Ancyloceras

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (6 collections), Argentina (12), Australia (12), Azerbaijan (2), Bulgaria (1), Canada (4: Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (13), Colombia (14), Czechia (1), Egypt (2), France (27), Georgia (3), Germany (6), Hungary (1), India (2), Iran (9), Italy (8), Japan (2), Madagascar (6), Mexico (15), Morocco (13), Mozambique (7), the Russian Federation (10), Slovakia (3), South Africa (12), South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (1), Spain (45), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Tunisia (3), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (29), United States (14: California), Venezuela (1)

• Jurassic of Egypt (1), Iraq (1)

Total: 295 collections including 401 occurrences

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