Parent taxon: Ceratitida according to D. Ware and H. Bucher 2018
See also Jattiot et al. 2016, Tozer 1994, Ware and Bucher 2018 and Đaković 2017
Sister taxa: Anfaceras, Arcestina, Arcestoidea, Arctohungaritidae, Bajarunia, Caribouceras, Carteria, Ceratites whitneyi, Ceratitiaceae, Ceratitina, Ceratitoidea, Choristoceratoidea, Clydonitaceae, Coeloceltites, Courtilloticeras, Cycloceratidae, Danubitoidea, Dinaritoidea, Eschericeratites, Glabrites, Glabrites involucrus, Haidingerites, Jeanbesseiceras, Larenites, Lobitaceae, Lobitina, Meekoceratina, Megaphyllitina, Megaphyllitoidea, Metassuria, Nathorstitaceae, Noritoidea, Obrutchevites, Otoceratina, Otocerina, Owenitidae, Paraacrochordiceras, Paraceltitina, Paraganides, Paratibites, Pinacoceratoidea, Pinacocerina, Poporites, Proavites, Procurvoceratites, Proptychitina, Protoceras, Ptychitaceae, Ptychitina, Sagecerataceae, Stolleites, Subacerites, Tapponnierites, Trachyceratoidea, Tropitaceae
Subtaxa: Byrrangoceratidae Flemingitidae Gyronitidae Ophiceratidae
Type: Meekoceras
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (7 collections), Armenia (10), Australia (4), Azerbaijan (16), Canada (62: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut), China (244), Greenland (178), India (123), Indonesia (15), Iran (6), Japan (2), Madagascar (4), Mongolia (1), Myanmar (1), Norway (4), Oman (33), Pakistan (123), the Russian Federation (88), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (11), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (2), United States (38: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah), Vietnam (8)
• Permian of Pakistan (2)
Total: 985 collections including 1556 occurrences