Alternative spelling: Bactritoidea
Parent taxon: Coleoidea according to R. Hoffmann et al. 2022
See also Teichert et al. 1964
Sister taxa: Aulacocerida, Belemnoida, Belemnoidea, Belemnomorpha, Decembrachiata, Glochinomorpha, Jeletzkya, Loligosepiida, Neocoleoidea, Onychoteuthis, Palaeoteuthomorpha, Phragmoteuthidida, Pohlsepia, Teuthidea, Ticinoteuthis, Decacera
Subtaxa: Bactritida
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of United States (1: California collection)
• Permian of Greece (1), Greenland (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (12), Mexico (2), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (9), Tajikistan (4), Timor-Leste (1), United States (2: Idaho, Texas)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Japan (2)
• Carboniferous of Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), United States (71: Arkansas, California, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Devonian of Australia (8), Canada (3: Nunavut, Ontario), Czechia (8), France (2), Germany (15), Morocco (11), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (10), South Africa (1), United States (8: Maryland, Montana, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania), Vietnam (1), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 181 collections including 225 occurrences