†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 Thermalites Ussurijuvenites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (10: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), China (30), Greece (2), India (10), Indonesia (2), Mongolia (1), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (10), Vietnam (4)
Total: 70 collections including 94 occurrences