Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 14509
Synonyms: Alternacanthoceras Marcinowski 1979 (no. 356970), Metacanthoplites Hyatt 1900 (no. 356971)
Full reference: M. Neumayr. 1875. Die Ammoniten der Kreide und die Systematik der Ammonitiden. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 27:854-942
Parent taxon: Acanthoceratinae according to A. S. Gale et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Acompsoceras, Alzadites, Benueites, Calycoceras, Conlinoceras, Cunningtoniceras, Eucalycoceras, Hypacanthohoplites, Kastanoceras, Kennediella, Microsulcatoceras, Nebraskites, Neocardioceras, Nigericeras, Paraconlinoceras, Plesiacanthoceratoides, Prohauericeras, Protacanthoceras, Pseudocalycoceras, Pseudovascoceras, Quitmaniceras, Sumitomoceras, Tarrantoceras, Thomelites, Tunesites, Watinoceras
Subtaxa: Acanthoceras (Pseudacanthoceras), Acanthoceras amphibolum, Acanthoceras asiatica, Acanthoceras athabascense, Acanthoceras bellense, Acanthoceras chasca, Acanthoceras compitalis, Acanthoceras compressum, Acanthoceras flexuosum, Acanthoceras granerosense, Acanthoceras joserita, Acanthoceras jukesbrownei, Acanthoceras lecontei, Acanthoceras milletianum, Acanthoceras muldoonense, Acanthoceras pollocense, Acanthoceras rhotomagense, Acanthoceras robustum, Acanthoceras sangalense, Acanthoceras whitei
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore