†family Nostoceratidae Hyatt 1894 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae

Alternative spelling: Nostoceratinae

Synonym: Jouaniceratidae Wright 1952

Parent taxon: Turrilitoidea according to D. Aiba et al. 2017

See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Brunnschweiler 1966, Henderson 1970, Ifrim et al. 2015, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1993, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 2000, Kennedy and Bilotte 1995, Kennedy and Christensen 1991, Kennedy and Cobban 1997, Kennedy et al. 2000, Kennedy et al. 2007, Kennedy and Gale 2015, Kennedy et al. 2000, Kennedy and Summesberger 1999, Matsumoto 1984, Shigeta 2014, Shigeta 2016, Summesberger 1979, Summesberger 1980, Thomel 1988, Ward and Kennedy 1993, Wright 1952, Wright 1979 and Wright et al. 1996

Sister taxa: Anisoceratidae, Baculitidae, Diplomoceratidae, Hamitidae, Plesiohamites, Turrilitidae

Subtaxa: Amapondella Anaklinoceras Ankinatsytes Axonoceras Bostrychoceras Bostrychoceratinae Cirroceras Didymoceras Emperoceratinae Eubostrychoceras Exicrioceras Exiteloceras Helicoceras Hyphantoceras Hyphantoceratinae Jouaniceras Morewites Neoturrilites Nipponites Nostoceras Notoceras Pravitoceras Tridenticeras Turrilitoides

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Angola (8 collections), Antarctica (8), Australia (13), Austria (3), Belgium (3), Brazil (2), Cameroon (1), Canada (7: British Columbia), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), France (98), Germany (9), Iraq (7), Italy (2), Japan (53), Madagascar (1), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), Nigeria (5), Oman (4), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (6), South Africa (7), Spain (6), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (2), Turkey (3), Turkmenistan (12), the United Kingdom (11), United States (198: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1)

Total: 479 collections including 676 occurrences

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