Parent taxon: Ammonitina according to M. Matsukawa et al. 2008
See also Alsen 2006, Arkadiev et al. 2000, Bert 2009, Boughdiri et al. 1999, Bulot et al. 2014, Frau et al. 2015, Frau et al. 2016, Frau et al. 2016, Galácz 2016, González-Arreola et al. 2017, Jain and Mazur 2021, Kennedy and Klinger 1990, Klein 2005, Lukeneder 2004, Parent 2006, Parent et al. 2017, Psczólkowski and Myczyñski 2004, Reboulet 1996, Salazar and Stinnesbeck 2016, Vasicek 2002, Vasicek and Skupien 2014, Vasicek and Skupien 2016, Verma and Westermann 1973, Wright 1952, Wright et al. 1996 and Zell and Stinnesbeck 2015
Sister taxa: Acanthoceratoidea, Aspidoceratoidea, Deshayesitoidea, Desmoceratoidea, Engonoceratoidea, Eoderoceratoidea, Hammatoceratoidea, Haploceratoidea, Hildoceratoidea, Hoplitoidea, Lytoceratoidea, Oppeliaceae, Perisphinctoidea, Psiloceratoidea, Pulchelliaceae, Sphaeroceratoidea, Spiroceratoidea, Stephanoceratoidea, Hamitaceae, Nannolytoceratidae, Crioceratitaceae, Protetragonitidae, Tetragonitoidea
Subtaxa: Holcodiscidae Isterites Oosterellidae Platylenticeratidae Polyptychitidae
Type: Perisphinctes
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (57 collections), Australia (2), Austria (8), Bulgaria (1), Canada (58: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), Chile (4), Colombia (9), the Czech Republic (5), France (150), Georgia (2), Germany (1), Greenland (53), Hungary (12), India (1), Italy (29), Mexico (9), Morocco (12), Poland (23), Portugal (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (206), Slovakia (5), Spain (69), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (11), Tunisia (14), the United Kingdom (4), United States (49: Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington)
• Jurassic of Germany (2), Greenland (1), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (39), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 843 collections including 1605 occurrences