Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: † Ammonoidea
Ordo: Prolecanitida
Subordo: Prolecanitina
Superfamilia: Prolecanitaceae
Familia: Daraelitidae
Subfamiliae: Dalaelitinae - Epicanitinae
Name
Daraelitidae Tschernow, 1907
References
The Paleobiology Database Accessed on 12/04/08
The Daraelitidae form a family in the ammonoid order Prolecanitida from the Upper Mississippian - Middle Permian characterized by discoidal shells with no prominent sculpture, moderately large umbilicus, and goniatitic or ceratitic sutures with a trifid (three pronged) ventral lobe and few auxiliary lobes.
The Daraelitidae are part of the prolecanitid superfamily Prolecanitoidea and are the direct descendants of the Prolecanitidae.
The Daraelitidae gave rise in the Middle Permian to the Xenodiscidae, the ancestral family of the mainly Triassic Ceratitida
References
Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf; Paleozoic Ammonoidea in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part-L, Ammonoidea, 1957, Geological Society of America.
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