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Proniceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae

Taxonomy
Proniceras is a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Ammonites pronus.

It was assigned to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Spiticeratinae by Imlay and Jones (1970), Myczynski (1989) and Frau et al. (2016).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Proniceras Imlay and Jones p. B3
1989Proniceras Myczynski p. 103
2002Proniceras Sepkoski
2016Proniceras Frau et al. p. 196

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderOlcostephaninaHaug 1910
superfamilyOlcostephanoidea(Haug 1910)
familyOlcostephanidaeHaug 1910
subfamilySpiticeratinaeSpath 1924
genusProniceras

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.

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Proniceras maupinense Imlay and Jones 1970
Proniceras pronum Oppel 1868
Proniceras subpronum Burckhardt 1919
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available