Cephalopoda - Agoniatitida - Gephuroceratidae
Alternative spelling: Virginoceratidae
Full reference: S. V. Yatskov. 1990. K sistematike semeystva Beloceratidae (Ammonoidea). Iskopaemye Tsefalopodi: Puti Evolyutsii i Sisematikya Otdelnykh Grupp. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 243:36-51
Parent taxon: Gephuroceratidae according to D. Korn 2006
See also Korn and Klug 2002 and Yatskov 1990
Sister taxa: Archoceratinae, Gephuroceratinae, Maternoceratinae, Trimanticoceratinae
Subtaxa: Carinoceras Neomanticoceras Virginoceras
Type: Virginoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (7 collections), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (17), United States (8: New York)
Total: 33 collections including 37 occurrences