Kingoceras is a genus in the ammonoid order Ceratitida

Ceratitida

The Ceratitida is an order that contains almost all ammonoid cephalopod genera from the Triassic as well as ancestral forms from the Upper Permian, the exception being the phylloceratids which gave rise to the great diversity of post Triassic ammonites....

 and family Paraceltitidae

Paraceltitidae

Paraceltitidae is a family of Middle and Upper Permian cephalopods, that comprise the earliest of the Ceratitida. Paraceltitidids have variably ribbed, discoidaly evolute shells with compressed elliptical whorl sections and simple suture lines. Their origin is most likely in the Daraelitidae of...

 which lived during the Late Permian from about 265 to about 254 million years ago. The shell is thinly lenticular, sutures are goniatitic and have only eight fully distinct lobes.

Two species are recognized. The type, Kingoceras kingi Miller 1944 comes from the Permian of state of Coahuila, Mexico, from concretionary shale and limestone of the La Difunta Formation and from offshore sandstone and mudstone of the La Colorada Formation. A second species, Kingoceras achurense, named by Zakharov 1983, is included, which comes from the Upper Permian Akhura Formation of Azerbaijan.