Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Alternative spellings: Acanthohoplitidae, Acanthoplitinae
Full reference: A. Stoyanow. 1949. Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy in southeastern Arizona. Geological Society of America Memoir 38:1-156
Parent taxon: Acanthohoplitidae according to J. L. Latil and E. Jaillard 2023
See also Barragán and Maurrasse 2008, Förster 1975, Frau 2023, Futakami 2018, Lehmann et al. 2019, Matsukawa 2021, Ovando-Figueroa et al. 2018, Robert and Bulot 2005, Robert et al. 2018, Stoyanow 1949, Szives 2007, Wright 1952 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acanthohoplites Colombiceras Gargasiceras Hypacanthohoplites Hypacanthoplites Immunitoceras Mellegueiceras Neodeshayesites Nolaniceras Paracanthohoplites Paracanthoplites Penaceras Rhytidoplites
Type: Acanthohoplites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), Colombia (3), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (46), Georgia (1), Germany (7), Hungary (1), Iran (26), Italy (2), Japan (7), Madagascar (11), Mexico (69), Morocco (3), Mozambique (4), Peru (11), the Russian Federation (3), South Africa (3), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (18), United States (38: Arizona, California, Louisiana, Texas), Venezuela (4)
Total: 263 collections including 437 occurrences