Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Maxigoniatitidae
Full reference: D. Korn, C. Klug, and R. Mapes. 1999. Viséan and Early Namurian Ammonoids from the Tafilalt (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Abhandlungen der Geologischen Bundesanstalt 54:345-375
Parent taxon: Pericyclaceae according to D. Korn and M. N. Sudar 2016
See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006 and Korn et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Furnishoceratidae, Intoceratidae, Kozhimitidae, Muensteroceratidae, Pericyclidae, Rotopericyclidae, Sudeticeratidae, Temertassetiidae
Subtaxa: Beyrichoceras Bollandites Bollandoceras Dzhaprakoceratinae Maxigoniatites
Type: Maxigoniatites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Algeria (25 collections), Australia (3), Morocco (4), Serbia and Montenegro (8), the United Kingdom (12), United States (12: Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Utah), Uzbekistan (3)
Total: 67 collections including 99 occurrences