Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Balatonitidae
Full reference: L. F. Spath. 1951. Catalogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda in the British Museum (Natural History), Part V, The Ammonoidea of the Trias (II) 1-228
Parent taxon: Ceratitoidea according to Y. Shigeta et al. 2010
See also Tozer 1981
Sister taxa: Badiotitidae, Ceratitidae, Dinaritidae, Hungaritidae, Rimkinitidae
Subtaxa: Augustaceras Balatonites Cuccoceras Ginsburgites Huishuites Platycuccoceras Robinsonites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (7 collections), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5), Cambodia (1), Chile (1), China (11), Greece (2), Hungary (74), India (1), Israel (1), Italy (20), Japan (3), Laos (1), Malaysia (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Thailand (2), Turkey (8), United States (77: Nevada), Vietnam (4)
Total: 231 collections including 356 occurrences