Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Full reference: E. Głowniak. 2012. The perisphinctid genus Prososphinctes Schindewolf (Ammonoidea, subfamily Prososphinctinae nov.): an indicator of palaeoecological changes in the Early Oxfordian Submediterranean sea of southern Poland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 264:117-179
Parent taxon: Perisphinctidae according to E. Głowniak 2012
Sister taxa: Albanesiceras, Ammonites heterostrophus, Aulacostephaninae, Bajocisphinctes, Choffatiasphinctes, Crussoliceras, Dorsoplanitinae, Euvirgalithacoceras, Franchia, Idoceratinae, Leptosphinctinae, Microbajocisphinctes, Mirosphinctes, Neuqueniceras, Organoceras, Orionoides, Oxysphinctes, Passendorferiinae, Perisphinctinae, Pictoniinae, Praebigotites, Procerites, Proplanulitinae, Prorsisphinctes, Pseudogravesia, Pseudoperisphinctinae, Pseudovirgatitinae, Sicilisphinctes, Siemiradzkia, Sivajiceratinae, Subgrossouvria, Tolvericeras, Vinalesphinctinae, Virgatitinae, Virgatopavlovia, Virgatosphinctinae, Wagnericeras dietrichi, Zenostephanus, Zigzagiceratinae
Subtaxa: Larcheria Platysphinctes Prososphinctes Tenuisphinctes
Type: Prososphinctes
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
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