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 meridionale Arctoceras newberryi Arctoceras oebergi Arctoceras omoloiense Arctoceras robinsoni Arctoceras schalteggeri Arctoceras septentrionale Arctoceras strigatus Arctoceras subhydaspis 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 (3), Greenland (3), Malaysia (1), Norway (18), Pakistan (3), the Russian Federation (63), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (37), United States (16: Alaska, California, Nevada, Utah)
Total: 163 collections including 195 occurrences
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