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†family Asteroceratidae Spath 1946

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae

Alternative spelling: Asteroceratinae

Parent taxon: Psiloceratoidea according to M. Edmunds et al. 2016

See also Blau 1998, Bremer 1965, Corna and Dommergues 1995, Geczy and Meister 2007, Howarth 2013 and Meister and Friebe 2003

Sister taxa: Arietitidae, Cymbitidae, Echioceratidae, Oxynoticeratidae, Phyllytoceratidae, Psiloceratidae, Schlotheimiidae, Oxyarietites

Subtaxa: Aegasteroceras Arctoasteroceras Asteroceras Bagnolites Caenisites Eparietites Epophioceras Epophioceroides Euerbenites Parasteroceras Protechioceras Ptycharietites Tmaegophioceras

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Distribution:

• Jurassic of Algeria (1 collection), Argentina (4), Austria (13), Canada (35: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), Chile (5), China (4), France (5), Germany (11), Hong Kong (1), Hungary (15), Italy (1), Mexico (15), Morocco (17), Portugal (18), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Tunisia (3), Türkiye (5), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (21), United States (12: California, Nevada)

Total: 189 collections including 277 occurrences

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