Alternative spelling: Popanocerataceae
Parent taxon: Goniatitina according to Z. R. Zhou 2017
See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Leonova 1989 and Leonova 2002
Sister taxa: Adrianitoidea, Agathiceratoidea, Cycloloboidea, Dimorphoceratoidea, Gastrioceratoidea, Girtyocerataceae, Goniatitidae, Goniatitoidea, Gonioloboceratoidea, Marathonitoidea, Neodimorphoceratoidea, Neoglyphioceratoidea, Neoicoceratoidea, Nomismoceratoidea, Pericycloidea, Schistoceratoidea, Shumarditoidea, Somoholitoidea, Thalassoceratoidea
Subtaxa: Mongoloceratidae Popanoceratidae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of the Russian Federation (1 collection), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Permian of Australia (2), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (10), East Timor (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (2), Iraq (1), Italy (4), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (11), Malaysia (4), Oman (4), the Russian Federation (36), Tajikistan (18), Thailand (1), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (1), United States (11: Arizona, Texas)
Total: 117 collections including 137 occurrences