Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Synonym: Orthocerotidae Miller and Teichert 1936
Parent taxon: Orthocerida according to B. Kröger and M. Aubrechtová 2019
See also Chen et al. 1981, Crick 1981, Evans 1994, Evans 2005, Flower 1962, Frey 1995, Kröger 2008, Kröger 2013, Kröger and Aubrechtova 2017, Kröger et al. 2007, Kröger et al. 2011, Miagkova 1967, Strand 1934, Teichert et al. 1964, Tongtherm et al. 2016 and Ulrich et al. 1944
Sister taxa: Acrosphaerorthoceras, Aptychopsis, Arionoceratidae, Arterioceras, Badouceras, Baltoceratidae, Bogoslovskya, Brachycycloceratidae, Chicagooceras, Cornuella, Cryptocycloceras, Cycloceras, Dictyoceras, Esopoceras, Folioceras, Garryoceras, Heloceras, Jangziceras, Joldagiroceras, Kentronites, Kionoceratidae, Loxoceras, Mericoceras, Molossus, Murchisoniceras, Naivs, Nebroceras, Neorthoceras, Orthoceratina, Orthodochmiocerataceae, Paradnatoceras, Paramooreoceras, Plicatoceras, Podoliceras, Proteoceratidae, Pseudorthocerataceae, Pseudorthoceratoidea, Pythonoceras, Rhabdites, Rhipsites, Sactorthoceratidae, Sannionites, Sichuanaceras, Sichuanoceratidae, Sphaerorthoceratidae, Sphaerortoceratidae, Subspyroceras, Tartaroceras, Tretoceras, Tripteroceratidae, Trispectes, Uralharuspex, Vericeras, Zhuralevia, Allumettoceratidae, Engorthoceratidae, Striatoceratidae, Eskimoceratidae, Michelinoceratidae, Choanoceratidae, Cycloceratidae
Subtaxa: Aethiosolen Anaspyroceratinae Chebbioceras Ctenoceras Infundibuloceras Kopaninoceras Leurocycloceratinae Merocycloceras Michelinoceras Michelinoceratinae Orthoceras Orthoceratinae Orthocycloceras Palorthoceras Pleurorthoceras Pojetoceras Prohypogeophis Prohypogeophis tunariensis Pseudospyroceras Striatocycloceras Theoceras Tibichoanoceras Tienoceras
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (7 collections), China (1), Germany (1), Hungary (3), India (2), Italy (3), Nepal (2), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), United States (16: California, Idaho, Nevada)
• Permian of Australia (1), Azerbaijan (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), China (3), East Timor (1), India (2), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Italy (5), Madagascar (1), Pakistan (8), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tajikistan (4), United States (2: Texas)
• Chokierian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Japan (1)
• Carboniferous of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), the Czech Republic (1), Kazakhstan (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (28: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (1), Brazil (3), Canada (5: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (7), Germany (10), Italy (3), Morocco (19), New Zealand (1), Poland (6), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (6), the United Kingdom (3), United States (112: Alaska, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania)
• Niagaran of United States (1: New York)
• Silurian to Devonian of Algeria (2), Austria (1), Italy (2), Poland (1), Spain (1)
• Silurian of Algeria (2), Austria (2), Brazil (1), Canada (8: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario), China (7), the Czech Republic (8), India (1), Italy (14), Japan (1), Mauritania (1), Morocco (21), Norway (1), Paraguay (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (11), the United Kingdom (39), United States (46: Alaska, California, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New York, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Western Sahara (1)
• Dobrotivian of the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Spain (1)
• Uhaku of Belarus (1), Estonia (1), Lithuania (1), Sweden (1)
• Chazyan of Canada (5: Ontario, Quebec), United States (9: New York, Vermont)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Minnesota)
• Fennian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Arenig of Bolivia (2), China (5)
• Dawan of China (5)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Australia (2), Belgium (1), Bolivia (2), Canada (19: Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (81), the Czech Republic (7), Estonia (36), Iran (1), Ireland (2), Lithuania (2), Norway (7), South Korea (1), Sweden (11), the United Kingdom (21), United States (122: California, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin), Vietnam (1)
Total: 837 collections including 1088 occurrences