†family Melagathiceratidae Tozer 1971 (ceratite)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae
Parent taxon: Meekoceratoidea according to Y. Shigeta and H. D. Nguyen 2014
See also Tozer 1994
Sister taxa: Albanitidae, Arctoceratidae, Dieneroceratidae, Inyoitidae, Mullericeratidae, Prionitidae, Proptychitidae
Subtaxa: Hebeisenites Jinyaceras Melagathiceras Paranannites Thermalites Ussurijuvenites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (4 collections), Canada (12: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (48), Greece (6), India (20), Indonesia (2), Japan (2), Mongolia (1), Oman (12), the Russian Federation (10), United States (18: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada), Vietnam (8)
Total: 143 collections including 216 occurrences