1907  Daraelitinae Chernov: 371.
     1934  Daraelitinae.- Schindewolf: 176.
     1937  Daraelitidae.- Plummer & Scott: 98 [nom.transl.]
     1950  Daraelitidae.- Ruzhentsev: 49.
  ?  1954  Daraelitidae.- Miller & Furnish: 688.
     1957  Daraelitidae.- Treatise: L70.
     1960  Daraelitidae.- Ruzhentsev: 185.
     1962  Daraelitidae.- Osnovy: 349.
     1972  Daraelitidae.- Weyer: 339.
     1999  Daraelitidae.-Leonova: 28.
     2002  Daraelitidae.-Leonova: S14.

Superfamily Prolecanitaceae Hyatt,1884:
A:   Conch in general smooth, widely evolute to moderately involute, discoidal, with wide or moderately narrow umbilicus.
G:   Ventral lobe simple or trifid. Lateral and umbilical lobes simple, acute or rounded, in some forms denticulate. Total
number of lobes 10 to 22. Basic sutural formula:   [Germ.] EALUUnI, [Russ.] VLUUn:ID. Primary lateral and umbilical
lobes (L and U) maintain their identity throughout ontogeny; new elements (U1+n, U1+n) were added by successive
derivation in saddles of umbilical lobe complex. Succession of subequal umbilical lobes decreases in size toward umbilicus.
Family Daraelitidae Chernov,1907:
G:   Ventral lobe broad trifid, first lateral lobe broadly rounded, succession of subequal umbilical lobes on flanks.

[Treatise part L revision 2005]: Family DARAELITIDAE Chernov, 1907

[nom. transl. Plummer & Scott, 1937, p. 98 (ex Daraelitinae Chernov, 1907, p. 371] [includes Epicanitinae Weyer, 1972, p. 340]
Conch smooth, small (generally less than 5 cm), widely evolute, thinly discoidal, usually with elliptical whorl section. Suture characterized by broad trifid ventral lobe, prominent rounded lateral, and succession of subequal umbilically derived lobes that decrease in size toward umbilicus. Total number of lobes 10 to 22, may include as many as two pairs of umbilically-derived internal laterals (plus I). Dorsal lobe bidentate. Prongs of ventral lobe and one to several adjacent external "lateral" lobes finely serrate at base, except in rare ancestral forms. Basic sutural formula:  (V2V1V2)LUU1.....Un:I(D1D1) [Russian].

[Primary lateral and umbilical lobes (L and U) maintained their identity throughout phylembryogenesis, and new elements (U1+n, where "n" ranges from 0-6) were added by successive derivation in saddles of umbilical lobe complex; up to two of these additions may occur in internal suture. During phylogeny, ventral lobe became progressively wider with corresponding decrease in width of adjacent lateral, serration increased in intensity and number of external lobes effected, and both external and internal umbilical lobes increased in number. Despite display of these several evolutionary trends, Daraelitidae constitute a long-ranging stable lineage that does not provide the basis for fine zonation. Genera are gradational, and definitions arbitrary. After appearance in the Viséan, daraelitids survived as ubiquitous but minor element of open-marine faunas from Serpukhovian time to extinction in the Wordian.] Lower Carboniferous (upper Viséan)-Middle Permian (Wordian).