Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Prionitidae
Parent taxon: Meekoceratoidea according to A. Brayard et al. 2021
See also Jattiot et al. 2016, Kummel 1969, Shigeta and Zakharov 2009, Spath 1934 and Tozer 1994
Sister taxa: Albanitidae, Arctoceratidae, Dieneroceratidae, Inyoitidae, Melagathiceratidae, Mullericeratidae, Proptychitidae
Subtaxa: Anasibirites Anaswasatchites Arctoprionites Gurleyites Hemiprionites Lucasites Meekoceras Prionites Punjabites Radioprionites Wasatchites
Type: Prionites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (8 collections), Albania (1), Australia (1), Canada (25: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (53), East Timor (1), Greece (1), India (14), Indonesia (10), Iran (1), Italy (7), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (3), Madagascar (1), Mongolia (1), Nepal (1), Oman (6), Pakistan (40), the Russian Federation (53), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (14), Tajikistan (4), United States (57: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (1)
• Cambrian of United States (1: New York)
Total: 307 collections including 642 occurrences