Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Palaeophyllitidae
Alternative spelling: Paleophyllitidae
Parent taxon: Ussuritoidea according to M. Ehiro 2022
See also Brayard et al. 2009, Ehiro et al. 2016, Shigeta and Nguyen 2014, Smyshlyaeva and Zakharov 2021, Tozer 1994 and Zakharov and Moussavi Abnavi 2013
Sister taxa: Galfettitidae, Nordophiceratidae, Ussuritidae
Subtaxa: Artyomites Burijites Eophyllites Goudemandites Kamenushkaites Leiophyllites Mangyshlakites Meropella Mianwaliites Palaeophyllites Stenophyllites Ussuriphyllites
Type: Palaeophyllites
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (1 collection), Albania (8), Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (9), Canada (10: British Columbia), China (31), Greece (26), Greenland (1), India (1), Indonesia (5), Iran (3), Italy (2), Japan (9), Kazakhstan (5), Montenegro (1), New Zealand (4), Oman (1), Pakistan (2), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (47), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Timor-Leste (2), Türkiye (30), United States (2: Idaho, Nevada), Vietnam (2)
Total: 210 collections including 266 occurrences