Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
Alternative spelling: Labeceratinae
Synonym: Aleteceratidae Whitehouse 1926
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1925. On upper Albian Ammonoidea from Portuguese East Africa, with an appendix on Upper Cretaceous ammonites from Maputaland. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 11(3):179-200
Parent taxon: Ancyloceratoidea according to A. Tajika et al. 2018
See also Förster 1975, Henderson 1990, Henderson and McKenzie 2002, Klein et al. 2007, Klinger 1989, McNamara 1978, Whitehouse 1926 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: Acrioceratidae, Ancyloceratidae, Hemihoplitidae, Heteroceratidae, Himantoceratidae, Leptoceratoididae, Paraspiticeras, Ptychoceratidae
Subtaxa: Aleteceras Hamitoides Idanoceras Labeceras Myloceras
Type: Labeceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (1 collection), Antarctica (1), Argentina (3), Australia (29), Canada (6: British Columbia), France (4), Madagascar (10), Mozambique (5), Papua New Guinea (2), South Africa (8)
Total: 69 collections including 106 occurrences