Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Parent taxon: Orthoceratidae according to K. Tongtherm et al. 2016
See also Chen et al. 1981, Crick 1981, Evans 2005, Hook and Flower 1977, Kröger 2008, Percival et al. 2001 and Teichert et al. 1964
Sister taxa: Aethiosolen, Anaspyroceratinae, Chebbioceras, Ctenoceras, Infundibuloceras, Kopaninoceras, Leurocycloceratinae, Merocycloceras, Michelinoceratinae, Orthoceras, Orthoceratinae, Orthocycloceras, Palorthoceras, Pleurorthoceras, Pojetoceras, Prohypogeophis, Prohypogeophis tunariensis, Pseudospyroceras, Striatocycloceras, Theoceras, Tibichoanoceras, Tienoceras
Subtaxa: Michelinoceras alticameratum Michelinoceras avelinii Michelinoceras currens Michelinoceras floridaense Michelinoceras guadalupense Michelinoceras melleni Michelinoceras michelini Michelinoceras mizobuchii Michelinoceras palatum Michelinoceras primum Michelinoceras richardsi Michelinoceras vandiverense Michelinoceras wapanuckense
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (1 collection), Italy (2), Thailand (1), United States (13: Nevada)
• Permian of China (1), Tajikistan (4), United States (2: Texas)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Japan (1)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Kazakhstan (1), United States (16: Arkansas, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Brazil (2), Canada (2: Ontario, Quebec), Czechia (4), Germany (1), Italy (2), Morocco (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (17: Alaska, New York)
• Niagaran of United States (1: New York)
• Silurian to Devonian of Italy (1)
• Silurian of Canada (6: Northwest Territories, Ontario), China (3), Czechia (1), Italy (10), Japan (1), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (21), United States (10: Iowa, New York, Wisconsin), Western Sahara (1)
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (1: Quebec)
• Whitlandian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Arenig of Bolivia (1), China (4)
• Dawan of China (4)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (2: Ontario, Quebec), China (60), Estonia (1), Iran (1), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (50: Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin), Vietnam (1)
Total: 265 collections including 298 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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