†family Megateuthididae Sachs and Nalnjaeva 1967 (belemnite)
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Megateuthididae
Parent taxon: Belemnitina according to J. D. Pinard et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Belemnitidae, Belemnoteuthidae, Cylindroteuthididae, Eocylindroteuthis, Hastitidae, Nipponoteuthidae, Oxyteuthididae, Passaloteuthididae, Salpingoteuthididae
Subtaxa: Acrocoelites Chuvashiteuthis Cuspiteuthis Dactyloteuthis Megateuthis Paramegateuthis
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Canada (3: British Columbia, Yukon collections), France (28), Germany (16), Greenland (7), Italy (2), Luxembourg (9), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (7), the United Kingdom (4)
Total: 77 collections including 144 occurrences