Alternative spelling: Popanocerataceae
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, Schistoceratoidea, Shumarditoidea, Somoholitoidea, Thalassoceratoidea
Subtaxa: Mongoloceratidae Popanoceratidae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1 collection), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Permian of Australia (2), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (10), Indonesia (3), Iran (2), Iraq (1), Italy (4), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (11), Malaysia (4), Oman (4), the Russian Federation (36), Tajikistan (18), Thailand (1), Timor-Leste (1), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (1), United States (11: Arizona, Texas)
Total: 117 collections including 137 occurrences