Parent taxon: Dendrobranchiata according to J. M. Wolfe et al. 2019
See also De Grave et al. 2009, Hegna et al. 2020, Poore and Ahyong 2004, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Schweitzer et al. 2014
Sister taxon: Sergestoidea
Subtaxa: Aciculopoda Aegeridae Aristeidae Benthesicymidae Carpopenaeidae Ifasya Penaeidae Sicyoniidae Solenoceridae
Type: Penaeus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of France (1 collection), Italy (2)
• Eocene of Iran (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Germany (3), Italy (1), Lebanon (3), Mexico (2), Morocco (2), United States (1: Tennessee)
• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (7), Italy (2), the Russian Federation (1), Switzerland (3), the United Kingdom (7), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Triassic of Austria (1), China (3), France (9), Germany (2), Italy (12), Madagascar (4), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Idaho, Nevada)
• Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
Total: 78 collections including 160 occurrences