Cephalopoda - Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae

Full reference: B. Kröger. 2008. Nautiloids before and during the ammonoid origin in a Siluro–Devonian section of the Tafilalt (Morocco). Special Papers in Palaeontology 79:1-110

Parent taxon: Oncoceratidae according to B. Kröger 2008

Sister taxa: Asaphiceras, Beloitoceras, Centrorizoceras, Cyrtorizoceras, Dalecarlioceras, Digenuoceras, Dunleithoceras, Ehlersoceras, Ekwanoceras, Kentlandoceras, Laphamoceras, Loganoceras, Maelonoceras, Metarizoceras, Miamoceras, Neumatoceras, Oncoceras, Oocerina, Paramiamoceras, Plesiorizosceras, Retizitteloceras, Richardsonoceras, Richardsonoceroides, Rizoceras, Romingoceras, Scofieldoceras, Tshingizoceras, Vaupelia, Zittelloceras

Subtaxa: Orthorizoceras desertum Orthorizoceras sinkovense

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Type: Orthorizoceras desertum

Ecology: fast-moving nektobenthic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Filon Douze Tafilalt bed OSPI-II (Silurian of Morocco)

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