Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Xenodiscidae
Parent taxon: Xenodiscoidea according to D. Korn and V. Hairapetian 2021
See also Korn 2006, Korn and Ghaderi 2016, Leonova 2002, Spinosa et al. 1975, Tozer 1969, Tozer 1981, Tozer 1994, Ware and Bucher 2018, Waterhouse 1987 and Zhou 2017
Sister taxa: Dzhulfitidae, Dzulfitidae, Hemilecanitidae, Huananoceratidae, Kashmiritidae, Kraffticeras, Liuchengoceratidae, Paraceltitidae, Pleuronodoceratidae, Pseudotirolitidae, Tapashanitidae, Xenoceltitidae
Subtaxa: Aldanoceras Arasella Hypophiceras Iranites Kaibinoceras Kelteroceras Laibinoceras Metophiceras Multisulcites Paraceltitoides Penglaites Phisonites Sakhaites Shevyrevites Sutchanites Tompophiceras Xenodiscinae Xenodiscus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (1 collection), Romania (1)
• Triassic of Canada (6: Nunavut), China (16), Greece (1), Greenland (63), India (10), Indonesia (1), Iran (5), Japan (2), Laos (1), Nepal (1), Norway (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (60), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (2: Idaho)
• Permian to Triassic of China (3), the Russian Federation (2)
• Permian of Armenia (18), Azerbaijan (24), China (34), India (5), Indonesia (1), Iran (46), Japan (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (3), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (20), the Russian Federation (15), Thailand (1), United States (1: California)
Total: 353 collections including 489 occurrences