Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Perrinitidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1940. Permian ammonoids of the Guadalupe Mountain region and adjacent area. Geological Society of America Special Paper 26:1-242
Parent taxon: Shumarditoidea according to Z. R. Zhou 2017
See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Leonova 1989, Leonova 2002 and Tharalson 1984
Sister taxa: Parashumarditidae, Shumarditidae, Somoholitidae
Subtaxa: Metaperrinites Paraperrinitinae Perrinites Perrinitinae Properrinites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Belize (2 collections), Canada (3: Yukon), China (9), Colombia (5), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Japan (1), Mexico (4), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (45), Thailand (5), United States (135: Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas), Venezuela (1)
Total: 213 collections including 252 occurrences