Alternative spelling: Schistocerataceae
Parent taxon: Goniatitina according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009
See also Korn 2006
Sister taxa: Adrianitoidea, Agathiceratoidea, Cycloloboidea, Dimorphoceratoidea, Gastrioceratoidea, Girtyocerataceae, Goniatitidae, Goniatitoidea, Gonioloboceratoidea, Marathonitoidea, Neodimorphoceratoidea, Neoglyphioceratoidea, Neoicoceratoidea, Nomismoceratoidea, Pericycloidea, Popanoceratoidea, Shumarditoidea, Somoholitoidea, Thalassoceratoidea
Subtaxa: Christioceratidae Orulganitidae Pseudoparalegoceratidae Schistoceratidae Welleritidae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of East Timor (1 collection), Pakistan (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (1), Canada (36: Nunavut), Kazakhstan (2), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (9), Spain (1), Ukraine (5), United States (132: Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas)
Total: 191 collections including 254 occurrences