Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1934. Ammonoidea of the Gault. Part XI. Paleontographical Society, London 86 (1932)(390):443-496
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratoidea according to W. J. Kennedy and N. J. Morris 2018
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, El Qot 2018, Förster 1975, Henderson 1990, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy et al. 1998, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Klinger 2011, Kennedy and Klinger 2012, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Mosavinia et al. 2014, Mosavinia et al. 2007, Sharifi et al. 2016 and Szives 2007
Sister taxa: Acanthoceratidae, Cleoniceratidae, Coilopoceratidae, Collignoniceratidae, Flickiidae, Forbesiceratidae, Hystatoceratidae, Leymeriellidae, Lyelliceratidae, Mojsisovicsiidae, Peroniceratidae, Prolyelliceratidae, Pseudotissotidae, Pseudotissotiidae, Sphenodiscidae, Tissotiidae, Vascoceratidae
Subtaxa: Brancoceratinae Mortoniceratinae
Type: Brancoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Algeria (2 collections), Angola (37), Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Armenia (1), Australia (10), Belgium (1), Brazil (5), Canada (5: British Columbia), Colombia (38), Ecuador (2), Egypt (4), Equatorial Guinea (2), France (48), Germany (1), Iran (5), Italy (1), Japan (2), Madagascar (13), Mexico (4), Mozambique (6), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Nigeria (23), North Atlantic (3), Peru (1), South Africa (7), Spain (3), Switzerland (3), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (4), United States (35: California, New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (5), Virgin Islands (1)
• Permian of India (1)
Total: 280 collections including 705 occurrences