†family Hellenitidae Kummel 1952 (ceratite)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Hellenitidae
Parent taxon: Dinaritoidea according to M. Ehiro et al. 2016
See also Kummel 1969 and Tozer 1981
Sister taxa: Columbitidae, Kazakhstanitidae, Keyserlingitidae, Khvalynitidae, Olenikitidae, Paragoceratidae, Sibiritidae, Stephanitidae, Tirolitidae
Subtaxa: Hellenites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Albania (1 collection), China (8), Greece (8), Japan (9), Kazakhstan (4), the Russian Federation (7), United States (4: Idaho, Nevada)
Total: 41 collections including 51 occurrences