Alternative spelling: Gastriocerataceae
Full reference: A. Hyatt. 1884. Genera of fossil cephalopods. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 22:253-338
Parent taxon: Goniatitina according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009
See also Korn 2006, Titus 1997, Titus 2000 and Waterhouse 1987
Sister taxa: Adrianitoidea, Agathiceratoidea, Cycloloboidea, Dimorphoceratoidea, Girtyocerataceae, Goniatitidae, Goniatitoidea, Gonioloboceratoidea, Marathonitoidea, Neodimorphoceratoidea, Neoglyphioceratoidea, Neoicoceratoidea, Nomismoceratoidea, Pericycloidea, Popanoceratoidea, Schistoceratoidea, Shumarditoidea, Somoholitoidea, Thalassoceratoidea
Subtaxa: Gastrioceratidae Glaphyritidae Homoceratidae Reticuloceratidae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of China (3 collections), Greece (1), India (1), Kazakhstan (8), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (2), United States (13: Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Texas, Wyoming), Uruguay (2)
• Chokierian of Kazakhstan (2), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Canada (35: Nunavut), China (7), Ireland (2), Kazakhstan (19), the Russian Federation (84), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (2), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (9), the United Kingdom (31), United States (284: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (13)
Total: 528 collections including 1058 occurrences