†superfamily Aspidoceratoidea Zittel 1895 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida

Parent taxon: Ammonitina according to H. Parent et al. 2022

Sister taxa: Acanthoceratoidea, Deshayesitoidea, Desmoceratoidea, Engonoceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hammatoceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea, Hoplitoidea, Lytoceratoidea, Oppeliaceae, Perisphinctaceae, Perisphinctoidea, Psiloceratoidea, Pulchelliaceae, Sphaeroceratoidea, Spiroceratoidea, Stephanoceratoidea, Nannolytoceratidae, Protetragonitidae, Tetragonitoidea, Crioceratitaceae, Hamitaceae

Subtaxa: Aspidoceratidae

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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 (39), Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (5), Cuba (1), Egypt (1), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (2), France (56), Germany (33), Hungary (12), India (19), Iran (1), Italy (20), Madagascar (45), Mexico (9), Poland (6), Portugal (1), Romania (56), 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: 463 collections including 943 occurrences

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