†family Olenikitidae Tozer 1971 (ceratite)
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Olenikitidae
Alternative spelling: Olenikitinae
Parent taxon: Dinaritoidea according to O. P. Smyshlyaeva and Yu. D. Zakharov 2017
See also Tozer 1981 and Tozer 1994
Sister taxa: Columbitidae, Hellenitidae, Kazakhstanitidae, Keyserlingitidae, Khvalynitidae, Paragoceratidae, Sibiritidae, Stephanitidae, Tirolitidae
Subtaxa: Hyrcanites Olenikites Pseudosvalbardiceras Svalbardiceras Tjururpites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Canada (9: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), China (1), India (1), Kazakhstan (5), Norway (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (43), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (8: Idaho, Nevada)
Total: 71 collections including 94 occurrences