Cephalopoda - Ellesmerocerida - Protocycloceratidae
Synonym: Rhabdocycloceras Zhuravleva 1994
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1900. Cephalopoda. Textbook of Palaeontology 1:502-604
Parent taxon: Protocycloceratidae according to D.H. Evans 2011
See also Crick 1981, Hook and Flower 1977, Kröger and Landing 2009, Teichert et al. 1964 and Ulrich et al. 1944
Sister taxa: Bakeroceras, Catoraphiceras, Catoraphinoceras, Cyptendoceras, Diastoloceras, Endocycloceras, Kyminoceras, Notocycloceras
Subtaxa: Protocycloceras abnorme Protocycloceras affine Protocycloceras arkansasense Protocycloceras catulus Protocycloceras debilis Protocycloceras doniphonense Protocycloceras furtivum Protocycloceras gangshanense Protocycloceras geronticum Protocycloceras lamarcki Protocycloceras landmarcki Protocycloceras levisense Protocycloceras manitouense Protocycloceras mendax Protocycloceras odenvillense Protocycloceras ordinatum Protocycloceras philipsburgense Protocycloceras rushense Protocycloceras smithvillense Protocycloceras xerxes
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (7: Ohio, Pennsylvania collections)
• Whiterockian of United States (2: Utah)
• Dawan of China (8)
• Arenig of Argentina (1), Bolivia (1), China (15), Sweden (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Bolivia (1), Canada (12: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario, Quebec), China (10), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (21), United States (14: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Vermont)
• Tremadoc of China (2), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 101 collections including 110 occurrences
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