Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Clionitidae

Alternative spelling: Clionites (Californites)

Full reference: A. Hyatt and J. P. Smith. 1905. The Triassic cephalopod genera of America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 40:1-394

Parent taxon: Clionitidae according to L. F. Spath 1951

See also Hyatt and Smith 1905 and Smith 1927

Sister taxa: Clionitites, Indoclionites, Leconteia, Sympolycyclus

Subtaxa: Clionites (Californites) careyi Clionites (Californites) merriami

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Ecology: nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at Brock Mountain, 3 miles east of Madison's ranch (Trachyceras subzone) (Triassic of California)

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