Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Prionoceratidae
Parent taxon: Prionocerataceae according to D. Korn and M. N. Sudar 2016
See also Furnish et al. 2009 and Korn 2006
Sister taxa: Acrocanitidae, Cheiloceratidae, Gattendorfiidae, Pseudarietitidae, Voehringeritidae
Subtaxa: Acutimitoceratinae Balvia Balviinae Cunitoceras Imitoceratinae Mimimitoceras Paragattendorfia Prionoceratinae Triimitoceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of France (6 collections), Germany (3), Greenland (3), the Russian Federation (48), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (16), the United Kingdom (3), United States (4: Alaska, California)
• Permian of Malaysia (1)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (20), Australia (3), Austria (5), Canada (1: Yukon), Chile (1), China (4), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (24), Morocco (7), the Russian Federation (4), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico), Uzbekistan (2)
• Devonian of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Canada (1: Alberta), China (4), Germany (6), Kazakhstan (6), Morocco (30), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 232 collections including 355 occurrences