Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Parent taxon: Mammitinae according to Cooper 1998
See also Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Sepkoski 2002 and Wright et al. 1996
Sister taxa: Buccinammonites, Buchiceras, Cryptometoicoceras, Fikaites, Mammites, Metasigaloceras, Metoicoceras, Mitonia, Nannometoicoceras, Parabuchiceras, Paracompsoceras, Plesiacanthoceras, Praemetoicoceras, Pseudoaspidoceras, Rhamphidoceras, Spathites, Texacanthoceras
Subtaxa: Dunveganoceras (Dunveganoceras) Dunveganoceras clowi Dunveganoceras hagei Dunveganoceras liguriense Dunveganoceras parvum Dunveganoceras pondi Dunveganoceras poucecoupense
Type: Acanthoceras albertense
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1 collection), Canada (17: Alberta, British Columbia), France (2), United States (16: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, South Dakota, Wyoming)
Total: 36 collections including 48 occurrences
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