†family Tornoceratidae Arthaber 1911 (ammonite)
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Tornoceratidae
Parent taxon: Tornocerataceae according to J. Bockwinkel et al. 2015
See also Bockwinkel et al. 2013, Bockwinkel et al. 2013, Bockwinkel and Korn 2015, Korn 2006 and Korn and Klug 2002
Sister taxa: Kirsoceratidae, Parodoceratidae, Pseudoclymeniidae
Subtaxa: Aulatornoceratinae Falcitornoceratinae Tornoceratinae
Type: Tornoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (6 collections), Australia (68), China (2), France (2), Germany (20), Kazakhstan (7), Morocco (11), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (73), Spain (2), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (92: Montana, New York, Ohio), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 295 collections including 437 occurrences