Parent taxon: Belemnoidea according to P. Doyle et al. 1994
See also Bandel et al. 1983, Brayard et al. 2009, Riccardi 2019 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Auleracida, Belemnitida
Subtaxa: Chitinoteuthididae Palaeobelemnopsidae Xiphoteuthididae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (2 collections), Canada (8: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (18), Hungary (1), New Zealand (1)
• Triassic of Afghanistan (2), Austria (16), Bosnia and Herzegovina (10), Hungary (3), India (1), Indonesia (2), Italy (9), Mexico (2), Nepal (2), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (15), Switzerland (6), Turkey (4), United States (29: Alaska, California, Nevada)
• Permian of China (2), Tunisia (1)
Total: 138 collections including 182 occurrences