Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Parent taxon: Desmoceratoidea according to W. J. Kennedy 2018
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Henderson 1970, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy and Bilotte 1995, Kennedy et al. 2007, Kennedy and Klinger 1985, Kennedy and Klinger 2013, Kennedy and Summesberger 1999, Klinger 1985, Macellari 1988, Medina and Riccardi 2005, Ward and Kennedy 1993 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Beudanticeratidae, Desmoceratidae, Muniericeratidae, Pachydiscidae, Puzosiidae, Silesitidae
Subtaxa: Kossmaticeratinae Marshallitinae
Type: Kossmaticeras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Motuan of New Zealand (4 collections)
• Cretaceous of Angola (1), Antarctica (232), Argentina (2), Australia (25), Austria (2), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (12: British Columbia), Chile (18), France (21), India (8), Jamaica (1), Japan (18), Madagascar (2), New Zealand (17), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (7), South Africa (21), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), United States (38: Alaska, Arkansas, California)
Total: 434 collections including 569 occurrences