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Prostacheoceras

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Vidrioceratidae

Taxonomy
Prostacheoceras was named by Ruzhencev (1937) [Sepkoski's age data: P Asse-l P Guad]. It is not extant. Its type is Marathonites juresanensis.

It was assigned to Goniatitida by Sepkoski (2002); to Vidrioceratidae by Leonova (1989), Leonova (2002), Furnish et al. (2009) and Zhou (2017); and to Vidrioceratinae by Bogoslovskaya (1990), Korn (2006) and Leonova (2018).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Prostacheoceras Ruzhencev
1989Prostacheoceras Leonova p. 169
1990Prostacheoceras Bogoslovskaya p. 72
2002Prostacheoceras Leonova
2002Prostacheoceras Sepkoski
2006Prostacheoceras Korn
2009Prostacheoceras Furnish et al. p. 149
2017Prostacheoceras Zhou p. 59
2018Prostacheoceras Leonova p. 237

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyCycloloboidea(Zittel 1895)
familyVidrioceratidae
subfamilyVidrioceratinaePlummer and Scott 1937
genusProstacheocerasRuzhencev 1937

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Prostacheoceras Ruzhencev 1937
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Prostacheoceras benedictinum Gemmellaro 1887
Prostacheoceras juresanense Maximova 1935
Prostacheoceras principale Bogoslovskaya and Popov 1986
Prostacheoceras strictum Bogoslovskaya 1978
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available