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Prohecticoceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae

Taxonomy
Prohecticoceras was named as a genus. It is not extant.

It was reranked as Hecticoceras (Prohecticoceras) by Elmi (1967).

It was assigned to Hecticoceras by Elmi (1967); to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); to Hecticoceratinae by Arkell et al. (1957) and Zatoń (2010); and to Oppeliidae by Besnosov and Mitta (1993) and Galácz (2019).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1957Prohecticoceras Arkell et al. p. 276
1967Hecticoceras (Prohecticoceras) Elmi
1993Prohecticoceras Besnosov and Mitta p. 57
2002Prohecticoceras Sepkoski
2010Prohecticoceras Zatoń p. 91
2019Prohecticoceras Galácz p. 239

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderHaploceratina
superfamilyHaploceratoidea(Zittel 1884)
familyOppeliidaeBonarelli 1894
genusProhecticoceras

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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Prohecticoceras haugi Popovici-Hatzeg 1905
Prohecticoceras retrocostatum de Grossouvre 1888
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available