Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arctoceratidae
Synonyms: Discoproptychites Kiparisova 1956, Proptychites (Discoproptychites) Kiparisova 1956
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1900. Cephalopoda. Textbook of Palaeontology 1:502-604
Parent taxon: Arctoceratidae according to A. Brayard et al. 2013
See also Kiparisova 1956, Runnegar 1969, Sepkoski 2002, Shigeta and Zakharov 2009, Spath 1934, Tozer 1981 and Tozer 1994
Sister taxa: Brayardites, Churkites, Escarguelites, Minersvillites, Nammalites, Nuetzelia, Submeekoceras, Truempyceras
Subtaxa: Arctoceras blomstrandi Arctoceras erebori Arctoceras kiparisovae Arctoceras newberryi Arctoceras oebergi Arctoceras omoloiense Arctoceras robinsoni Arctoceras septentrionale Arctoceras tuberculatum Discoproptychites walcotti Proptychites (Discoproptychites) septentrionale
Type: Ceratites polaris
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Australia (3 collections), Canada (16: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut), China (1), Greenland (3), Malaysia (1), Norway (18), the Russian Federation (58), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (37), United States (16: Alaska, California, Nevada, Utah)
Total: 153 collections including 174 occurrences
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