Morphology
Genera of the Uddenitinae have narrow discoidal shells with narrow flat or sometimes grooved venters. Sutures are goniatitic to ceratitic with rounded saddles and slightly pointed to digitate lobes which form a declining series going toward the umbilicus. The ventral lobe is commonly long and narrow, and trifurcated with sharp, simple prongs.Genera
The Uddenitinae includes ''Prouddenites'', (ancestral form), ''Uddenites'',(type genus), ''Daixites'', ''Neouddenites'', and ''Uddenoceras''. ''Prouddenites'', named by Miller, 1930, which is found in the Pennsylvanian of the south-central United States and the Urals, has a discoidal shell with a flattened venter and a suture with an unequally trifid first lateral lobe. It is intermediate between '' Pronorites'' and ''Uddenites''. ''Uddenites'', named by Böse, 1919, known from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Texas and the Urals, has a discoidal shell with a retuse (grooved) venter. The ventral portion of the first lateral lobe is intermediate in depth. ''Diaxites'', Ruzhentsev 1941, has the characteristic discoidal form but the ventral lobe is quite wide, still trifid. ''Diaxites'' is Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian in age. ''Neouddenites'', Ruzhentsev 1961, is similar to ''Uddenites'', but later, coming from the Lower Permian. ''Uddenoceras'', named by Miller and Furnish, 1954, from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Texas and the Urals has a discoidal shell like ''Uddenites'', but the ventro-lateral portion of the suture forms a broad saddle.Generic phylogeny
''Prouddenties'' has its origin in the (Pronoritidae), probably in ''Uralopronorites'' from the Upper Mississippian, and giving rise to ''Uddenites'' and ''Daixites''. ''Uddenites'' in turn gave rise to ''Uddenoceras'' and ''Neouddenties''. ''Daixites'' left no known descendants.References
* Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf, 1957. Paleozoic Ammonoidea (Prolecantina); Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, (Ammonoidea). Geol Soc of America and Univ Kansas Press. p. L72-L73.