Lecanites is a ceratitid genus assigned to the Danubitaceae, with an essentially smooth, evolote, discoidal shell and a goniatitic suture with many elements. It is the type and now only genus of the Lecanitidae. Previously, according to the Treatise Part L, Lecanites and Badiotites were included together in the Lecanitidae which then was part of the Clydonitaceae. Since then (Tozer 1981) Badiotites was reassigned to the new family Badiotitidae which is included in the Ceratitaceae and Lecanites and Lecanitidae put to the Danubitaceae.