Parent taxon: Neocoleoidea according to R. Hoffmann et al. 2022
See also Bandel et al. 1983, Brayard et al. 2009, Doyle et al. 1994, Riccardi 2019 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Decabrachia, Donovaniconida, Hematitida, Mojsisovicsteuthis, Octobrachia, Phragmoteuthida, Vampyropoda
Subtaxa: Chitinoteuthididae Palaeobelemnopsidae Xiphoteuthididae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (2 collections), Canada (8: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (18), Hungary (1), Italy (1)
• Triassic of Afghanistan (2), Austria (15), Bosnia and Herzegovina (9), Hungary (3), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (8), Japan (2), Mexico (2), Nepal (2), New Zealand (2), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (15), Turkey (4), United States (29: Alaska, California, Nevada)
• Permian of China (2), Tunisia (1)
Total: 133 collections including 170 occurrences