Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Synonyms: Buchiceratidae Hyatt 1903, Buchiceratinae Hyatt 1903, Metoicoceratidae Hyatt 1903, Metoicoceratinae Hyatt 1903
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratoidea according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Ahmad et al. 2013, Aly et al. 2008, Arkadiev et al. 2000, Barroso-Barcenilla 2004, Barroso-Barcenilla 2007, Benzaggagh et al. 2017, Cobban 1988, Cooper 1978, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Gale et al. 2005, Gale et al. 2018, Ifrim and Stinnesbeck 2007, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy 2013, Kennedy 2014, Kennedy and Cobban 1988, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy et al. 1996, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Jolkicev 2004, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Matsumoto and Skwarko 1993, Meister 1989, Meister et al. 1994, Meister et al. 1992, Mosavinia and Wilmsen 2011, Parnes 1964, Sharifi et al. 2016, Summesberger 1992, Szives 2007, Wright 1952, Wright et al. 1996 and Zaborski 1987
Sister taxa: Brancoceratidae, Cleoniceratidae, Coilopoceratidae, Collignoniceratidae, Flickiidae, Forbesiceratidae, Hystatoceratidae, Leymeriellidae, Lyelliceratidae, Mojsisovicsiidae, Peroniceratidae, Prolyelliceratidae, Pseudotissotidae, Pseudotissotiidae, Sphenodiscidae, Tissotiidae, Vascoceratidae
Subtaxa: Acanthoceratinae Euomphaloceratinae Mammitinae Mantelliceratinae
Type: Acanthoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore