Parent taxon: Prioniodontida according to T. Maekawa and H. Igo 2014
See also Pyle and Barnes 2002 and Sweet 1988
Sister taxa: Acodontidae, Anticostiodus, Balognathidae, Balognathoidea, Cyrtoniodontidae, Distomodontidae, Histiodella, Multioistodontidae, Oepikodus, Oistodontidae, Paracordylodontidae, Paracordylodus, Periodontidae, Phragmodus, Plectodinidae, Prioniodinina, Prioniodontacea, Rhipidognathidae, Sagittodontina, Strachanognathidae
Subtaxa: Chirognathidae Prioniodinidae Pseudooneotodus
Ecology: nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (1 collection), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Greece (24), Hungary (3), India (1), Israel (1), New Zealand (1), Serbia (4), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Timor-Leste (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Permian of Greece (1)
• Carboniferous of Afghanistan (1), China (4), Egypt (1), Germany (1), India (1), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (5), United States (20: California, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia)
• Devonian to Triassic of Greece (1)
• Devonian of Australia (10), Austria (84), Brazil (1), Bulgaria (9), China (2), Czechia (1), France (2), Germany (5), Greece (1), Italy (68), Morocco (9), United States (4: Nevada, Texas), Vietnam (1), Western Sahara (2)
• Niagaran of Canada (2: Québec)
• Silurian to Devonian of Thailand (1)
• Silurian of Argentina (1), Australia (17), Austria (12), Canada (167: British Columbia, Cape Manning, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), Czechia (21), Estonia (60), Greece (2), Greenland (55), Italy (123), Latvia (7), Lithuania (38), Mongolia (4), Morocco (1), Norway (4), Poland (17), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (87), Thailand (1), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (23), United States (261: California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin), Western Sahara (2)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: British Columbia)
• Arenigian of United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (15: Nunavut)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (18: Nunavut)
• Ordovician of Argentina (12), Australia (1), Austria (5), Canada (52: British Columbia, Cornwallis Island, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Québec), China (17), Greenland (6), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (1), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (8), the Russian Federation (6), Sweden (3), United States (18: Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma)
Total: 1358 collections including 1758 occurrences