Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Melagathiceratidae

Alternative combination: Nannites dieneri

Full reference: A. Hyatt and J. P. Smith. 1905. The Triassic cephalopod genera of America. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 40:1-394

Belongs to Juvenites according to B. Kummel and G. Steele 1962

Sister taxa: Juvenites edelsteini, Juvenites kraffti, Juvenites laevis, Juvenites multiconstractus, Juvenites procurvus, Juvenites septentrionalis, Juvenites sinuosus, Juvenites spathi, Juvenites tenuicostatus, Juvenites thermarum

Type specimen: Its type locality is Union Wash, Meekoceras bed, Inyo Range, which is in a Smithian slope limestone in the Union Wash Formation of California

Ecology: nektonic carnivore