Cephalopoda - Endocerida - Proterocameroceratidae
Alternative spelling: Proterocameratidae
Parent taxon: Endocerida according to B. Kröger and B. Lefebvre 2012
See also Crick 1981, Evans 2011, Flower 1958, Hook and Flower 1977, Kröger 2012, Kröger and Evans 2011, Kröger and Landing 2008 and Kröger and Landing 2009
Sister taxa: Baltoceras pusillum, Botryceratidae, Choreanoceroides, Cyrtendoceratidae, Endoceratidae, Eocameroceras, Hoyoceras, Narthecoceratidae, Pronajaceras, Thylacoceratidae, Trinitoceras, Winstonoceras, Yehlioceras, Yorkoceratidae
Subtaxa: Campendoceras Clitendoceras Cotteroceras Escharendoceras Exoclitendoceras Kirkoceras Kugeloceras Lobendoceras Lobosiphon Manitouoceras Mccluskiceras Mcqueenoceras Meniscoceras Mysticoceras Oderoceras Palaeocycloceras Paraendoceras Phragmosiphon Platysiphon Pliendoceras Proendoceras Proterocameroceras Protocyptendoceras Retroclitendoceras Stenosiphon
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Chazyan of United States (2: New York collections)
• Hunderum of Sweden (1)
• Dawan of China (2)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), China (10), United States (2: Oklahoma)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Canada (3: Ontario, Quebec), China (3), France (2), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (21), United States (31: Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia)
• Canadian of United States (3: Maryland)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (1), China (9)
Total: 97 collections including 146 occurrences