Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Full reference: F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516
Parent taxon: Dimorphoceratoidea according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009
See also Korn 2006
Sister taxa: Berkhoceratidae, Dimorphoceratidae, Eogonioloboceratidae
Subtaxa: Anthracoceras Anthracoceratoides Cathranoceras Ningxiaceras Sudeticeras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Chokierian of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Namurian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous of the Czech Republic (1), Kazakhstan (21), Libya (1), Morocco (10), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (66), United States (15: Arkansas, Illinois, Oklahoma)
Total: 118 collections including 141 occurrences