Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Parent taxon: Arcestoidea according to L. Krystyn et al. 2019
See also Astakhova 1971, Fantini Sestini 1994, Fantini Sestini 1996, Tozer 1981, von Mojsisovics 1896 and Vörös 2018
Sister taxa: Cladiscitidae, Joannitidae, Proarcestidae, Sphingitidae
Subtaxa: Anisarcestes Arcestes Galeites Gonarcestes Joannitinae Lobitinae Proarcestes Rhaetites Stenarcestes
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Kaihikuan of United States (3: Nevada collections)
• Triassic of Albania (1), Austria (52), Bosnia and Herzegovina (12), Canada (11: British Columbia), Chile (3), China (3), Croatia (2), Georgia (1), Germany (3), Greece (7), Hungary (25), India (6), Indonesia (3), Iran (5), Israel (2), Italy (44), Mexico (1), Nepal (3), New Caledonia (2), New Zealand (8), Oman (3), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (1), Poland (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (24), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (3), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Switzerland (5), Turkey (25), Ukraine (9), United States (92: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon)
• Permian of Indonesia (1)
Total: 371 collections including 554 occurrences