Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea - Proptychitidae
PaleoDB taxon number: 14076
Invalid subtaxa: Aspidites Waagen 1895 [replaced name] (no. 149358), Meekoceras (Aspidites) Waagen 1895 [replaced name] (no. 422055)
Full reference: J. P. Smith. 1913. Ammonoidea. Text-Book of Paleontology 1:617-677
Parent taxon: Proptychitidae according to T. Brühwiler and H. Bucher 2012
Sister taxa: Arctomeekoceras, Bukkenites, Clypeoceratoides, Discoproptychites, Dunedinites, Evenites, Guodunites, Gyronites, Gyrophiceras hubeiense, Gyrophiceras orientale, Heibergites, Hubeitoceras, Jieshaniceras, Koninckites, Koninckitoides, Koninickites, Kummelia, Leyeceras, Monneticeras, Nanningites, Pachyproptychites, Paraspidites, Pleurogyronites, Prionolobus, Proptychites, Proptychitinae, Pseudaspidites, Pseudoproptychites, Tompoproptychites, Tulongites, Wailiceras, Xiaoqiaoceras
Subtaxa: Aspidites arenosus, Aspidites dentosus, Aspidites kingianus, Aspidites magnumbilicatus, Aspidites meridianus, Clypeoceras superbum, Clypeoceras timorense
Ecology: nektonic carnivore