Alternative spellings: Nautilacea, Nautilaceae, Nautilitaceae
Parent taxon: Nautilida according to C. Baudouin et al. 2016
See also Adegoke 1977, Beu 1968, Gliozzi and Malatesta 1983, Landman et al. 2007, Llompart 1986, Sastry and Mathur 1968, Schnetler and Heilmann-Clausen 2011, Squires 1984 and Teichert et al. 1964
Sister taxa: Adeloceras, Aipoceratoidea, Aktubonautilidae, Alethynoceras, Anepheloceras, Anglonautlis, Askeatonolucidum, Bastindoceras, Bisiphytes, Capriocornites, Catastroboceras, Centroceratidae, Clydonautiloidea, Conchorhynchus, Danzikoceras, Dasbergoceras, Dentalium (Antalis) acumen, Dentoceratidae, Dzhinsetoceras, Exoticeras, Geitonoceras, Grzegorzewskia, Krykyloceras, Kummeloceras, Mahoningoceras, Menuthionautlis, Nautilorhynchus, Nautilus delphinus, Nautilus marcoui, Nautilus normannicus, Neobistrialites, Nikenautilus, Palaskensis, Parachouteauoceras, Paranautilidae, Permonautilidae, Piratoceras, Pleuronautilidae, Pseudocatastroboceras, Pseudophacoceras, Pseudostenopoceras, Pteronautilus, Rutoceratina, Soakinautilus, Syringonautilidae, Tainoceratina, Tainoceratoidea, Thaymastoceras, Thrincoceratidae, Uloceras, Vertorhizoceras, Yakutionautilus
Subtaxa: Aturiidae Cenoceratidae Cymatoceratidae Hercoglossidae Nautilidae Paracenoceratidae Pseudonautilidae
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (1 collection), Australia (6), India (1), Indonesia (4), Japan (7), New Zealand (2), Papua New Guinea (2), the Philippines (1), Somalia (1), Taiwan (1), Thailand (2)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Angola (1), Australia (36), Austria (4), Brazil (2), Chile (11), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (3), Cuba (3), Cyprus (4), Egypt (2), France (20), Germany (1), Grenada (1), Haiti (1), India (3), Indonesia (3), Italy (15), Japan (20), Madagascar (1), Malta (1), Martinique (1), Mexico (2), New Zealand (12), Pakistan (3), Panama (1), Slovakia (1), Taiwan (3), Tonga (1), United States (20: California, Florida, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington), Venezuela (3)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1), United States (2: Alaska, Washington)
• Oligocene of Argentina (1), Australia (4), Belgium (1), France (1), India (1), Israel (3), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), Taiwan (1), United States (38: Alaska, California, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene of Angola (3), Antarctica (10), Australia (39), Austria (2), Chile (5), China (1), Colombia (5), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), Croatia (1), Denmark (3), Egypt (10), France (24), Hungary (2), India (11), Israel (3), Italy (7), Jamaica (2), Japan (17), Kazakhstan (2), Libya (3), Mali (1), Mexico (5), Namibia (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), New Zealand (6), Nigeria (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (4), Peru (16), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Senegal (11), Somalia (17), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), the United Kingdom (37), United States (95: Alabama, California, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington), Venezuela (3)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (3), Niger (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: California)
• Paleogene of Libya (1)
• Paleocene of Angola (2), Argentina (6), Australia (8), Austria (4), Brazil (2), China (1), Colombia (1), Cuba (1), Denmark (8), Egypt (7), France (1), Georgia (2), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (8), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), Mali (7), Mexico (4), New Zealand (1), Niger (1), Nigeria (1), the Russian Federation (8), Senegal (2), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Togo (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (12), United States (80: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas)
• Motuan of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Mali (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Angola (3), Antarctica (24), Argentina (10), Armenia (4), Australia (3), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (1), Belgium (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (2: Alberta), Chile (18), Colombia (7), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (2), Egypt (13), France (42), Georgia (3), Germany (49), Greenland (3), Hungary (3), India (13), Iran (7), Italy (2), Japan (38), Jordan (3), Kazakhstan (15), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (10), Mexico (26), Moldova (2), Morocco (6), Mozambique (7), New Zealand (7), Oman (2), Papua New Guinea (2), Peru (1), Poland (2), Portugal (4), the Russian Federation (55), South Africa (2), Spain (53), Switzerland (15), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (13), Ukraine (48), the United Arab Emirates (3), the United Kingdom (29), United States (156: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming), Uzbekistan (2), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic of Australia (1), Austria (18), Canada (11: British Columbia), Chile (2), the Czech Republic (2), Egypt (1), Ethiopia (3), France (112), Germany (64), Hungary (1), India (8), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (4), Luxembourg (8), Madagascar (13), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Pakistan (2), Poland (13), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (43), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (29), Switzerland (28), Tanzania (5), Tunisia (20), the United Kingdom (30), United States (11: Alaska, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming), Yemen (2)
• Triassic of Austria (3), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Hungary (1), India (3), Israel (1), Italy (5), Kazakhstan (1), New Caledonia (1), New Zealand (3), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Turkey (2), United States (2: Idaho)
• Permian of Australia (1), Azerbaijan (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Pakistan (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Missouri)
Total: 2021 collections including 2446 occurrences