Werneroceratidae

Systematic Paleontology Suborder Anarcestina Superfamily Anarcestaceae Family Werneroceratidae

The Werneroceratidae is a family of mid Devonian ammonites that along with the closely related Anarcestidae,  Cabrieroceratidae, and Sobolewiidae make up the Anarcestaceae, a superfamily within the Anarcestina.

Genera within the Werneroceratidae include Werneroceras Wedekind 1918, its type,   Crispoceras and Praewereneroceras  Chlupac & Turek 1983, and Diallagites Klug 2002. Cabrieroceras, previously included, is now placed in its own family, the Cabrieroceratidae.

Werneroceratids lasted from about 392 to 383.5 million years ago. Their fossils have been found in Devonian sediments in Algeria, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Morocco, the Russian Federation, Spain, the United States in Nevada and New York state, and Uzbekistan.

References Werneroceratidae in Fossilworks.org Werneroceratidae in GONIAT online