Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Synonyms: Algeritidae Spath 1925, Phlycticrioceratidae Spath 1926
Parent taxon: Turrilitoidea according to W. J. Kennedy and N. J. Morris 2018
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cantu-Chapa 1962, Förster 1975, Henderson 1990, Kennedy 1984, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy et al. 1988, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy et al. 1998, Kennedy and Gale 2015, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Klinger 2009, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Klinger et al. 2010, Sharifi et al. 2016, Summesberger 1979, Szives 2007, Thomel 1988, Wright 1952 and Wright 1979
Sister taxa: Baculitidae, Diplomoceratidae, Hamitidae, Nostoceratidae, Plesiohamites, Turrilitidae
Subtaxa: Algerites Allocrioceras Anisoceras Ephamulina Idiohamites Metahamites Ndumuiceras Phlycticrioceras Prohelicoceras Protanisoceras Rossalites Tarrantites
Type: Anisoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (6 collections), Armenia (1), Australia (2), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (1), Canada (2: British Columbia), Colombia (1), France (61), Germany (11), India (2), Iran (1), Italy (1), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (1), Madagascar (19), Mexico (1), Mozambique (2), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (1), Peru (2), South Africa (6), Spain (3), Switzerland (5), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (25), United States (49: Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 214 collections including 331 occurrences