Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Parent taxon: Aspidoceratoidea according to H. Parent et al. 2022
See also Garrido et al. 2018, Jain and Mazur 2021, Parent 2006, Parent et al. 2011 and Verma and Westermann 1973
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Aspidoceratinae Epipeltoceratinae Euaspidoceratinae Hybonoticeratinae Peltoceratinae Physodoceras Pseudhimalayites Simocosmoceras Sutneria Toulisphinctes
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Italy (1 collection), Slovakia (1), Yemen (5)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Chile (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (10), Antarctica (2), Argentina (67), Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (5), Cuba (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (2), France (56), Germany (34), Hungary (12), India (19), Iran (1), Italy (20), Madagascar (44), Mexico (9), Poland (7), Portugal (1), Romania (55), the Russian Federation (13), Saudi Arabia (9), Somalia (1), Spain (13), Switzerland (70), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (8), United States (2: California, Texas), Yemen (13)
Total: 491 collections including 969 occurrences