Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Echioceratidae
Parent taxon: Psiloceratoidea according to M. K. Howarth 2013
See also Blau 1998, Blau et al. 2000, Blau et al. 2008, Geczy and Meister 2007, Lukeneder and Lukeneder 2018 and Meister and Friebe 2003
Sister taxa: Arietitidae, Asteroceratidae, Cymbitidae, Oxynoticeratidae, Phyllytoceratidae, Psiloceratidae, Schlotheimiidae, Oxyarietites
Subtaxa: Echioceras Gagaticeras Leptechioceras Orthechioceras Palaeoechioceras Paltechioceras Plesechioceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (77 collections), Canada (27: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (2), China (1), France (4), Germany (5), Hong Kong (1), Hungary (14), Iran (1), Italy (1), Mexico (27), Morocco (53), Papua New Guinea (1), Portugal (42), Romania (1), Slovakia (2), Spain (12), Tunisia (3), Türkiye (9), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (17), United States (11: Nevada)
Total: 317 collections including 517 occurrences