Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Palaeophyllitidae
Alternative spelling: Monophyllites (Leiophyllites)
Parent taxon: Palaeophyllitidae according to M. Ehiro 2022
See also Ehiro et al. 2016, Kummel 1960, Kummel 1969, McLearn 1969, Nakazawa and Bando 1968, Renz and Renz 1948, Sepkoski 2002, Spath 1934, Tozer 1981, Tozer 1994 and Wiedmann 1970
Sister taxa: Artyomites, Burijites, Eophyllites, Goudemandites, Kamenushkaites, Mangyshlakites, Meropella, Mianwaliites, Palaeophyllites, Stenophyllites, Ussuriphyllites
Subtaxa: Leiophyllites admaris Leiophyllites asseretoi Leiophyllites confucii Leiophyllites ellipticus Leiophyllites foliodenticulatus Leiophyllites indoaustralicus Leiophyllites laevis Leiophyllites maritimus Leiophyllites marshalli Leiophyllites middlemissi Leiophyllites pitamaha Leiophyllites pradyumna Leiophyllites pseudopradyumna Leiophyllites radians Leiophyllites serpentinus Leiophyllites suessi Leiophyllites taramellii Leiophyllites timorensis Leiophyllites variabilis Leiophyllites visendus Leiophyllites wakoi
Type: Monophyllites suessi
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (1 collection), Albania (6), Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (9), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (16), East Timor (2), Greece (25), Greenland (1), India (1), Indonesia (2), Iran (2), Japan (5), Kazakhstan (4), New Zealand (4), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (24), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Turkey (30), United States (1: Nevada), Vietnam (1)
Total: 143 collections including 176 occurrences
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