Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Sandlingitidae
Alternative spelling: Clionites (Neanites)
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: Traskites according to L. F. Spath 1951
See also Hyatt and Smith 1905
Sister taxa: Clionites (Traskites) americanus, Clionites (Traskites) fairbanksi, Clionites (Traskites) nanus, Clionites (Traskites) robustus, Clionites (Traskites) stantoni, Clionites (Traskites) tornquisti, Traskites (Stantonites)
Subtaxa: Clionites (Neanites) californicus Clionites (Neanites) minutus Clionites (Neanites) osmonti
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Brock Mountain, 3 miles east of Madison's ranch (Trachyceras subzone) (Triassic of California)