Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Synonym: Hammelloceratidae Shimizu and Obata 1936
Full reference: R. H. Flower. 1962. Part 1, Revision of Buttsoceras, Part 2, Notes on the Michelinoceratida. State Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Memoir 10:1-58
Parent taxon: Orthocerida according to B. Kröger and M. Aubrechtová 2019
See also Chen et al. 1981, Crick 1981, Evans 1994, Flower 1962, Kröger 2013, Kröger and Aubrechtova 2017, Kröger et al. 2007, Kröger et al. 2011, Kröger and Isakar 2006, Sweet 1964 and Teichert et al. 1964
Sister taxa: Acrosphaerorthoceras, Aptychopsis, Arionoceratidae, Arterioceras, Badouceras, Baltoceratidae, Bogoslovskya, Brachycycloceratidae, Chicagooceras, Cornuella, Cryptocycloceras, Cycloceras, Dictyoceras, Esopoceras, Folioceras, Garryoceras, Heloceras, Jangziceras, Joldagiroceras, Kentronites, Kionoceratidae, Loxoceras, Mericoceras, Molossus, Murchisoniceras, Naivs, Nebroceras, Neorthoceras, Orthoceratidae, Orthoceratina, Orthodochmiocerataceae, Paradnatoceras, Paramooreoceras, Plicatoceras, Podoliceras, Pseudorthocerataceae, Pseudorthoceratoidea, Pythonoceras, Rhabdites, Rhipsites, Sactorthoceratidae, Sannionites, Sichuanaceras, Sichuanoceratidae, Sphaerorthoceratidae, Sphaerortoceratidae, Subspyroceras, Tartaroceras, Tretoceras, Tripteroceratidae, Trispectes, Uralharuspex, Vericeras, Zhuralevia, Allumettoceratidae, Engorthoceratidae, Striatoceratidae, Eskimoceratidae, Michelinoceratidae, Choanoceratidae, Cycloceratidae
Subtaxa: Archigeisonoceras Baykonuroceras Clothoceras Cyrtactinoceras Ephippiorthoceras Euorthoceras Gangshanoceras Gorbyoceras Isorthoceras Liulinoceras Mesnaquaceras Metephippiorthoceras Monomuchites Paraproteoceras Proteoceras Pseudeskimoceras Pseudoliolinoceras Stereospyroceras Tofangoceras Transorthoceras Treptoceras Ulmioceras
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (1: Quebec collection), China (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1)
• Chazyan of United States (20: New York, Vermont)
• Marmor of United States (1: New York)
• Hunderum of Sweden (1)
• Dawan of China (1)
• Arenig of China (11), South Korea (3)
• Ordovician of Argentina (3), Australia (8), Canada (33: Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan), China (12), Estonia (6), Greenland (1), Ireland (3), Norway (8), South Korea (2), Sweden (10), the United Kingdom (8), United States (109: Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Iowa, Minnesota, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
Total: 244 collections including 327 occurrences