†family Paranoritidae Spath 1930 (ceratite)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Paranoritidae
Parent taxon: Noritaceae according to B. Kummel 1969
See also Kummel and Steele 1962, Runnegar 1969 and Spath 1934
Sister taxa: Lanceolitidae, Noritidae, Noritidea
Subtaxa: Awanites Koiloceras Koninckites Paranorites Pashtunites Radioceras Vavilovites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Armenia (2 collections), Australia (3), Canada (18: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut), China (37), Greece (1), India (33), Indonesia (2), Japan (1), Madagascar (5), Oman (1), Pakistan (49), the Russian Federation (35), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (11: California, Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (1)
Total: 201 collections including 251 occurrences