Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Full reference: V. E. Ruzhentsev and M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1971. Namurskiy etap v evolyutsii ammonoidey. Rannenamyurskie ammonoidei. Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 133:1-382
Parent taxon: Glaphyritidae according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009
See also Titus 1997 and Titus 2000
Sister taxa: Fayettevilleinae, Kolymoglaphyrites, Stenoglaphyritinae, Syngastrioceras
Subtaxa: Cryptotyloceras Eosyngastrioceras Glaphyrites Oxiglaphyrites Paracravenoceras Richardsonites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Kazakhstan (8 collections), Tajikistan (2), United States (10: Alaska, Kansas, Texas), Uruguay (2)
• Chokierian of Kazakhstan (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), Kazakhstan (19), the Russian Federation (36), Spain (2), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (177: Arkansas, California, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (3)
Total: 266 collections including 308 occurrences