Proteoceratidae is an extinct family of actively mobile aquatic carnivorous cephalopods belonging to the subclass Orthoceratoidea 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 .

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).

Proteoceratidae

Genera

Archigeisonoceras

Baykonuroceras

Cyrtactinoceras

Ephippiorthoceras

Euorthoceras

Gangshanoceras

Gorbyoceras

Isorthoceras

Liulinoceras

Mesnaquaceras

Metephippiorthoceras

Monomuchites

Orthonybyoceras

Paraproteoceras

Proteoceras

Pseudoliolinoceras

Stereospyroceras

Tofangoceras

Transorthoceras

Treptoceras

Ulmioceras

References

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Orthocerida

Ordovician cephalopods

Ordovician cephalopods of Asia

Ordovician cephalopods of Europe

Ordovician cephalopods of North America

Ordovician cephalopods of South America

Middle Ordovician first appearances

Early Cretaceous extinctions

Proteoceratidae