Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Vascoceratidae
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratoidea according to M. L. Guendouz et al. 2022
See also Aly et al. 2008, Benzaggagh et al. 2017, Cooper 1978, Gale et al. 2005, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Gale 2016, Kennedy and Simmons 1991, Meister 1989, Meister et al. 1994, Meister et al. 1992, Summesberger 1992, Wright 1952 and Zaborski 1987
Sister taxa: Acanthoceratidae, Brancoceratidae, Cleoniceratidae, Coilopoceratidae, Collignoniceratidae, Flickiidae, Forbesiceratidae, Hystatoceratidae, Leymeriellidae, Lyelliceratidae, Mojsisovicsiidae, Peroniceratidae, Prolyelliceratidae, Pseudotissotidae, Pseudotissotiidae, Sphenodiscidae, Tissotiidae
Subtaxa: Ezilloella Microdiphasoceras Pseudoneoptychites Pseudotissotiinae Rubroceras Vascoceratinae
Type: Vascoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (33 collections), Angola (3), Austria (2), Brazil (16), Cameroon (10), Colombia (3), Egypt (24), France (10), Gabon (1), India (1), Israel (2), Jordan (9), Mexico (10), Morocco (2), Niger (6), Nigeria (39), Oman (1), Peru (2), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (33), Tunisia (22), United States (35: Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas), Venezuela (6)
Total: 273 collections including 465 occurrences