†family Schlotheimiidae Spath 1923 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Schlotheimiidae

Synonym: Waehneroceratinae Rakus 1975

Parent taxon: Psiloceratoidea according to M. Edmunds et al. 2016

See also Blau 1998, Corna and Dommergues 1995, Delsate et al. 2002, Howarth 2013 and Meister and Friebe 2003

Sister taxa: Arietitidae, Asteroceratidae, Cymbitidae, Echioceratidae, Oxynoticeratidae, Phyllytoceratidae, Psiloceratidae, Oxyarietites

Subtaxa: Angulaticeras Kammerkarites Macrogrammites Saxoceras Schlotheimia Waehneroceras

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Argentina (8 collections), Austria (22), Belgium (1), Canada (49: British Columbia), Chile (60), China (6), France (7), Germany (18), Hungary (8), Indonesia (1), Italy (8), Luxembourg (2), Madagascar (1), Mexico (4), Morocco (39), the Netherlands (1), New Caledonia (10), New Zealand (1), Peru (13), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (2), Turkey (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (20), United States (43: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon)

• Triassic to Jurassic of Austria (1)

• Triassic of Chile (1)

Total: 333 collections including 444 occurrences

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