Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Gyronitidae
Alternative spelling: Gyronitinae
Parent taxon: Meekocerataceae according to D. Ware and H. Bucher 2018
See also Brühwiler et al. 2010, Smyshlyaeva and Zakharov 2015, Spath 1934, Ware and Bucher 2018 and Đaković 2017
Sister taxa: Byrrangoceratidae, Flemingitidae, Ophiceratidae
Subtaxa: Abrekites Ambites Catalecanites Gyronites Gyrophiceras Kingites Kymatites Lingyunites Meekophiceras Mudiceras Parakymatites Subradioceras
Type: Gyronites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (1 collection), Armenia (2), Azerbaijan (2), Canada (25: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (72), Greenland (8), India (62), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Madagascar (1), Montenegro (2), Oman (5), Pakistan (68), the Russian Federation (37), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (20: California, Idaho, Nevada), Vietnam (1)
Total: 309 collections including 392 occurrences