Alternative spelling: Thalassocerataceae
Parent taxon: Goniatitina according to Z. R. Zhou 2017
See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Leonova 1989 and Leonova 2002
Sister taxa: Adrianitoidea, Agathiceratoidea, Cycloloboidea, Dimorphoceratoidea, Gastrioceratoidea, Girtyocerataceae, Goniatitidae, Goniatitoidea, Gonioloboceratoidea, Marathonitoidea, Neodimorphoceratoidea, Neoglyphioceratoidea, Neoicoceratoidea, Nomismoceratoidea, Pericycloidea, Popanoceratoidea, Schistoceratoidea, Shumarditoidea, Somoholitoidea
Subtaxa: Bisatoceratidae Thalassoceratidae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (3 collections), Canada (4: Nunavut, Yukon), China (3), East Timor (1), Italy (3), Japan (3), Kazakhstan (20), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (10), Tajikistan (19), United States (11: New Mexico, Texas)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Kazakhstan (1)
• Carboniferous of Canada (16: Nunavut), China (1), Kazakhstan (19), the Russian Federation (33), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (37: Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas), Uzbekistan (3)
Total: 192 collections including 226 occurrences