Alternative spelling: Megaphyllitaceae
Parent taxon: Ceratitida according to Y. Shigeta and H. D. Nguyen 2014
See also Fantini Sestini 1994, Fantini Sestini 1996, Tozer 1981 and Tozer 1994
Sister taxa: Anfaceras, Arcestina, Arcestoidea, Arctohungaritidae, Bajarunia, Caribouceras, Carteria, Ceratites whitneyi, Ceratitiaceae, Ceratitina, Ceratitoidea, Choristoceratoidea, Clydonitaceae, Coeloceltites, Courtilloticeras, Cycloceratidae, Danubitoidea, Dinaritoidea, Eschericeratites, Glabrites, Glabrites involucrus, Haidingerites, Jeanbesseiceras, Larenites, Lobitaceae, Lobitina, Meekocerataceae, Meekoceratina, Megaphyllitina, Metassuria, Nathorstitaceae, Noritoidea, Obrutchevites, Otoceratina, Otocerina, Owenitidae, Paraacrochordiceras, Paraceltitina, Paraganides, Paratibites, Pinacoceratoidea, Pinacocerina, Poporites, Proavites, Procurvoceratites, Proptychitina, Protoceras, Ptychitaceae, Ptychitina, Sagecerataceae, Stolleites, Subacerites, Tapponnierites, Trachyceratoidea, Tropitaceae
Subtaxa: Megaphyllitidae Parapopanoceratidae Procarnitidae Prosphingitidae
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic to Jurassic of Chile (1 collection)
• Triassic of Afghanistan (1), Albania (8), Austria (27), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5), Canada (59: British Columbia), China (14), East Timor (2), Germany (2), Greece (19), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), India (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (19), Japan (5), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (2), Nepal (2), New Zealand (6), Oman (3), Papua New Guinea (4), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (72), Slovenia (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (17), Tajikistan (2), Turkey (19), Ukraine (1), United States (33: California, Idaho, Nevada), Vietnam (1)
Total: 339 collections including 382 occurrences