Alternative spelling: Prolecanitacea
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1884. Genera of fossil cephalopods. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 22:253-338
Parent taxon: Prolecanitida according to Z. R. Zhou 2017
See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Korn and Sudar 2016, Leonova 1989, Leonova 2002 and Titus 2000
Sister taxa: Medlicottiina, Medlicottioidea, Prolecanitina, Sageceratina
Subtaxa: Daraelitidae Prolecanitidae
Type: Prolecanites
Distribution:
• Permian of China (3 collections), Indonesia (1), Iraq (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (8), the Russian Federation (9), Tajikistan (16), United States (6: Nevada, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (8), Australia (6), Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (4: Nunavut), Chile (1), China (1), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (35), Morocco (18), the Russian Federation (29), Serbia and Montenegro (15), Spain (1), Tajikistan (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (44: Arkansas, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (6)
• Devonian of United States (2: Missouri)
Total: 232 collections including 313 occurrences