Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea - Perisphinctidae
Parent taxon: Perisphinctoidea according to M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke 2018
See also Arkell 1952, Arkell et al. 1957, Dutta and Bardhan 2016, Majidifard 2015, Matsukawa et al. 2008, Mesezhnikov 1984, Parent 2006, Salazar and Stinnesbeck 2016, Sato and Yamada 2014, Verma and Westermann 1973 and Zell and Stinnesbeck 2015
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Albanesiceras Aulacostephaninae Bajocisphinctes Choffatiasphinctes Dorsoplanitinae Euvirgalithacoceras Franchia Homoeoplanulites Idoceratinae Leptosphinctinae Microbajocisphinctes Mirosphinctes Orionoides Oxysphinctes Passendorferiinae Perisphinctinae Pictoniinae Planisphinctes Praebigotites Procerites Prorsisphinctes Pseudogravesia Pseudoperisphinctinae Pseudovirgatitinae Sicilisphinctes Siemiradzkia Sivajiceratinae Tenuisphinctes Vinalesphinctinae Virgatopavlovia Virgatosphinctinae Zenostephanus Zigzagiceratinae
Type: Perisphinctes
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore