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Ptychoceratidae

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ptychoceratidae

Taxonomy
Ptychoceratidae was named by Meek (1876). Its type is Ptychoceras.

It was reranked as the subfamily Ptychoceratinae by Förster (1975).

It was assigned to Hamitaceae by Wright (1952); to Ammonoidea by Kemper (1964); to Baculitidae by Förster (1975); to Ancylocerataceae by Reboulet (1996) and Landra et al. (2000); to Turrilitaceae by Szives (2007); and to Ancyloceratoidea by Henderson (1990) and Bersac and Bert (2019).

Subtaxa

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1876Ptychoceratidae Meek
1952Ptychoceratidae Wright
1964Ptychoceratidae Kemper p. 38
1975Ptychoceratinae Förster p. 163
1990Ptychoceratidae Henderson p. 125
1996Ptychoceratidae Reboulet p. 180
2000Ptychoceratidae Landra et al. p. 38
2007Ptychoceratidae Szives p. 58
2019Ptychoceratidae Bersac and Bert

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderAncyloceratinaWiedmann 1966
superfamilyAncyloceratoidea(Gill 1871)
familyPtychoceratidaeMeek 1876
familyPtychoceratidaeMeek 1876

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.

Fm. †Ptychoceratidae Meek 1876
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G. †Diptychoceras Gabb 1869
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Diptychoceras iwatense Obata and Matsukawa 2018
G. †Inaptychoceras Matsukawa 2021
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Inaptychoceras koikei Matsukawa 2021
G. †Ptychoceras d'Orbigny 1842
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Ptychoceras adpressum Sowerby 1814
Ptychoceras emericianum d'Orbigny 1842
Ptychoceras fauncei Haas 1942
Ptychoceras laeve Matheron 1842
Ptychoceras laeve Gabb 1869
Ptychoceras natrice Anderson 1938
Ptychoceras poni Simionescu 1898
Ptychoceras puzosianum d'Orbigny 1842
Ptychoceras quadratus Gabb 1864
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available