Kingdom Animalia Rank Family Subclass Nautiloid | Phylum Mollusca Order Orthocerida | |
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Similar Orthocerida, Nautiloid, Orthoceratoidea, Oncocerida, Orthocone | ||
Proteoceratidae is an extinct family of actively mobile aquatic carnivorous cephalopods belonging to the subclass Nautiloidea endemic to what would be Asia, Australia, Europe, South America and North America during the Ordovician living from 490—445.6 Ma, existing for approximately 44.4 million years.
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Taxonomy
Proteoceratidae was named by Flower (1962). Its type is Proteoceras. It was assigned to Michelinoceratida by Flower (1962); to Pseudorthocerataceae by Teichert et al. (1964), Sweet (1964) and Evans (1994); to Pseudorthocerida by Kröger and Isakar (2006); and to Orthocerida by Kröger et al. (2007).
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