Synonym: Hibbertopteroidea Kjellesvig-Waering 1959
Parent taxon: Stylonurina according to J. C. Lamsdell 2025
See also Dunlop et al. 2013, Dunlop et al. 2020 and Lamsdell et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Kokomopteroidea, Rhenopteroidea, Stylonuroidea
Subtaxa: Drepanopteridae Hibbertopteridae Mycteropidae
Type: Mycteropidae
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (1 collection), Brazil (1), the Russian Federation (2), United States (1: Arizona)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Belgium (1), Czechia (1), South Africa (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (8: Iowa, Nebraska, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Virginia)
• Devonian of Belgium (1), Canada (2: Northern Territories, Northwest Territories), Germany (1), Ireland (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Silurian of the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Indiana, West Virginia)
Total: 36 collections each including a single occurrence