Xenodiscidae

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Guadalupian|Lopingian}}

| image = Xenodiscidae - Xenodiscus besairiei.JPG

| image_caption = Xenodiscus besairiei on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano

| taxon = Xenodiscidae

| authority = Frech, 1902

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision =

• Aldanoceras
• Arctotirolites
• Glyptophiceras
• Hanielites
• Hemilecanites
• Hypophiceras
• Iranites
• Kaibinoceras
• Kelteroceras
• Metophiceras
• Penglaites
• Phisonites
• Pseudoceltites
• Shevyrevites
• Sutchanites
• Tompophiceras
• Tozericeras
• Xenodiscus

}}

The Xenodiscidae are the earliest of the Ceratitida and comprise Middle and Upper Permian genera characterized by compressed, discoidal, evolute shells with rounded to acute venters and commonly with lateral ribs. Sutures are goniatitic to weakly ceratitic.Arkell et al, 1957

The Xenodiscidae, which are part of the superfamily Xenodiscoidea, are derived from the Daraelitidae, a family in the Prolecanitida (ibid). In turn, the Xenodiscidae provided the root stock for the subsequent expansion and diversification of the Ceratitida in the Triassic.