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Mammites

Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Acanthoceratidae

Taxonomy
Mammites was named by Laube and Bruder (1887) [Sepkoski's age data: K Turo-l Sepkoski's reference number: 716]. Its type is Ammonites nodosoides. It is the type genus of Mammitidae.

It was reranked as Acanthoceras (Mammites) by Boule et al. (1907).

It was assigned to Acanthoceras by Boule et al. (1907); to Mammitidae by Benavides-Caceres (1956); to Acanthoceratidae by Zaborski (1987); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Mammitinae by Chancellor (1982), Cobban and Hook (1983), Kennedy et al. (1987), Meister et al. (1994), Kennedy (1994), Wright et al. (1996), Cooper (1998), Barroso-Barcenilla (2004), Barroso-Barcenilla (2007), Ifrim and Stinnesbeck (2007), Kennedy et al. (2008), Kennedy and Gale (2016).