Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Parent taxon: Orthoceratidae according to K. Tongtherm et al. 2016
See also Chen et al. 1981, Crick 1981, Evans 2005, Hook and Flower 1977, Kröger 2008, Percival et al. 2001 and Teichert et al. 1964
Sister taxa: Aethiosolen, Anaspyroceratinae, Chebbioceras, Ctenoceras, Infundibuloceras, Kopaninoceras, Leurocycloceratinae, Merocycloceras, Michelinoceratinae, Orthoceras, Orthoceratinae, Orthocycloceras, Palorthoceras, Pleurorthoceras, Pojetoceras, Prohypogeophis, Prohypogeophis tunariensis, Pseudospyroceras, Striatocycloceras, Theoceras, Tibichoanoceras, Tienoceras, Trematoceras
Subtaxa: Michelinoceras alticameratum Michelinoceras avelinii Michelinoceras campanile Michelinoceras currens Michelinoceras floridaense Michelinoceras guadalupense Michelinoceras melleni Michelinoceras michelini Michelinoceras mizobuchii Michelinoceras palatum Michelinoceras primum Michelinoceras richardsi Michelinoceras vandiverense Michelinoceras wapanuckense
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (4 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), China (8), Hungary (4), India (3), Italy (7), Nepal (1), the Russian Federation (3), Switzerland (5), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), United States (27: Nevada, nevada)
• Permian of China (1), Tajikistan (4), United States (2: Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Chesterian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Osagean of United States (2: Kentucky)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Japan (1)
• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (1), United States (12: Arkansas, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Devonian of Australia (1), Brazil (2), Canada (2: Ontario, Quebec), the Czech Republic (4), Germany (1), Italy (2), Morocco (1), Saudi Arabia (1), United States (17: Alaska, New York)
• Silurian to Devonian of Italy (1)
• Silurian of Canada (6: Northwest Territories, Ontario), China (3), the Czech Republic (1), Italy (10), Japan (1), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (21), United States (10: Iowa, New York, Wisconsin), Western Sahara (1)
• Niagaran of United States (1: New York)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (3: Ontario, Quebec), China (52), Estonia (1), Iran (1), South Korea (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (50: Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin), Vietnam (1)
• Llandeilo of China (8)
• Arenig of Bolivia (1), China (4)
• Dawan of China (4)
Total: 312 collections including 345 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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