Tornoceratoidea

Tornoceratoidea, also known as Tornocerataceae, is a superfamily of goniatitid ammonoids included in the suborder Tornoceratina.

Tornoceratoidea, or Tornocerataceae, is essentially the Cheilocerataceae of Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf (1957) in the Treatise Part L, revised to accommodate new taxa and new perspectives on the phylogeny.

Tornoceratoid genera are divided among five families, Tornoceratidae, Parodoceratidae, Posttornoceratidae, Pseudoclymediidae, and Kirsoceratidae, some of which have been recently established.

Posttornoceratidae is a small family of tornoceratoids, split into two subfamilies the Posttornoceratinae and Discoclymeniinae, based on Posttornoceras and Discoclymenia.

The family was originally included in the Tornoceratidae by Miller et al. Pseudoclymeniidae is a family of tornoceroids containing a single genus, Pseudoclymenia, named by Frech in 1897 and split off from the Tornoceratidae of Miller et al. by Becker in 1993.