1978  Mongoloceratinae Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaya: 87.
     1981  Mongoloceratidae Glenister & Furnish: 64. Erroneously new erected; nom.transl. ex Mongoloceratinae
               Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia, 1978, p.87.
     1988  Mongoloceratidae Glenister & Furnish: 57, 59: "new family" - synonym.
     2002  Mongoloceratidae.-Leonova: S96.

Differing from Popanoceratidae in possession of a proportionally larger umbilicus (U/D 0.2-0.35) and an arched trace of the
external suture across the dorsolateral flanks.