Oxynoticeratidae is a family of true ammonites (order Ammonitida) included in the superfamily Psiloceratoidea.
Oxynoticeratids have a broad, worldwide distribution but a narrow stratigraphic one, being known only from the Upper Sinemurian and Lower Pliensbachian,Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database – Cephalopoda during which their shells changed little in form.
Genera Cheltonia Buckman, 1904 Gleviceras Buckman, 1918 Hypoxynoticeras Spath, 1925 Oxynoticeras Hyatt, 1875 Paracymbites Spath, 1925 Paroxynoticeras Pia, 1914 Radstockiceras Buckman, 1918 Slatterites Spath, 1923
Description These cephalopds, as the other species in the superfamily Psiloceratoidea, are usually characterized by mostly involute, oxyconic shells with narrow venter and compressed, lanceolate whorl section. The suture line is of ammonitic type. Ribbing is feeble, hardly functional and often absent.
They have developed shorter body chambers than in the ancestral Arietitidae, resulting in more stable floating positions. Their mostly smooth, knife-edge discoidal forms would have allowed for quick, though probably no sustained, movement through the water.
Distribution Fossils of species within this genus have been found in the Jurassic sediments of Argentina, Canada, China, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Turkey and United Kingdom.
References
Arkell et al., 1957. Mesozoic Ammonoidea. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, pp. L240-L243. Geological Soc. of America and Univ. Kansas Press. Donovan & Callomon, 1981. Ammonoidea.