Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Pleuronautilidae
Parent taxon: Pleuronautiloidea according to D. Korn 2025
See also Zhou 1979
Sister taxa: Aktubonautilidae, Foordiceratidae, Gzheloceratidae, Metacoceratidae, Mosquoceratidae, Rhiphaeoceratidae
Subtaxa: Anoploceras Arctonautilus Encoiloceras Enoploceras Grumantoceras Holconautilus Linonautilus Lutonautilus Phaedrysmocheilus Phloioceras Pleuronautilus Sibyllonautilus Trachynautilus
Type: Pleuronautilus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (1 collection), Austria (18), Bosnia and Herzegovina (6), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (1), Germany (1), Hungary (12), India (4), Indonesia (1), Israel (2), Italy (5), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (3), Malaysia (1), Nepal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (100), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Switzerland (1), Türkiye (1), United States (18: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah)
• Permian of Australia (1), Azerbaijan (2), China (10), Indonesia (1), Iran (6), Japan (4), Pakistan (4), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (1), United States (8: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Kyrgyzstan (1)
Total: 225 collections including 276 occurrences