Parent taxon: Tainoceratina according to D. Korn 2025
Sister taxa: Tainoceratoidea, Temnocheilaceae
Subtaxa: Aktubonautilidae Foordiceratidae Gzheloceratidae Metacoceratidae Mosquoceratidae Pleuronautilidae Rhiphaeoceratidae
Type: Pleuronautilus
Ecology: nektobenthic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Afghanistan (1 collection), Austria (19), Bosnia and Herzegovina (6), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (1), Germany (1), Hungary (14), India (6), Indonesia (1), Israel (5), Italy (5), Jordan (1), Kazakhstan (3), Malaysia (1), Nepal (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (100), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Switzerland (1), Türkiye (1), United States (20: Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah)
• Permian of Armenia (8), Australia (1), Azerbaijan (16), China (23), Indonesia (2), Iran (25), Italy (7), Japan (7), Kazakhstan (4), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (19), the Russian Federation (16), Tajikistan (5), Ukraine (1), United States (37: Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (2)
• Carboniferous of Kazakhstan (9), Kyrgyzstan (1), the Russian Federation (8), Ukraine (7), the United Kingdom (4), United States (42: Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)
Total: 441 collections including 595 occurrences