Arctoceras was named by
Alpheus Hyatt in
1900.
Arctoceras is the type genus of the Arctoceratidae which is a
family in the Meekocerataceae, a superfamily within the
order Ceratitida. Ceratitids are ammonoid cephalopods, mostly from the Triassic but with ancestral forms in the
upper Permian. Meekocerataceae sometimes appears as Meekoceratoidea to conform with a recent ruling of the
ICZN regarding superfamily endings. ==Occurrence==