†family Proteusitidae Spath 1951 (ceratite)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Proteusitidae
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1951. Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part V, The Ammonoidea of the Trias (II) 1-228
Parent taxon: Nathorstitaceae according to E. T. Tozer 1994
See also Tozer 1981
Sister taxa: Nathorstitidae, Thanamitidae, Tsvetkovitidae
Subtaxa: Proteusites Tozerites Tropigastrites
Type: Proteusites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2 collections), Canada (4: British Columbia), East Timor (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), United States (42: Nevada)
Total: 57 collections including 74 occurrences