Synonym: Jaekelopteridae Stoermer 1974
Parent taxon: Pterygotoidea according to J. C. Lamsdell 2025
See also Dunlop et al. 2013, Dunlop et al. 2020, Selden 1986 and Størmer 1955
Sister taxa: Ciurcopteridae, Herefordopteridae, Hughmilleriidae, Hunanopteridae, Slimoniidae
Subtaxa: Acutiramus Erettopterus Jaekelopterus Pterygotus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Algeria (1 collection), Australia (5), Canada (6: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec), China (2), Czechia (6), France (1), Germany (4), Norway (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (6: Florida, Indiana, New York, Ohio, Wyoming)
• Silurian to Devonian of Poland (1)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (3: New Brunswick, Ontario), China (2), Czechia (7), Estonia (2), Libya (2), Morocco (1), Norway (6), Poland (3), Spain (1), Sweden (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (11), United States (23: Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia)
Total: 111 collections including 150 occurrences