1977  Shouchangocerataceae Zhao & Zheng: 225,
       ----    Shouchangoceratidae Zhao & Zheng: 225.
     1979  Shouchangoceratinae.-Glenister, Nassichuk & Furnish: 236 (nom.transl. ex Shouchangoceratidae Zhao &
               Zheng,1977, p.225).
     1981  Shouchangoceratinae.-Frest, Glenister & Furnish: 18.
     1987  Shouchangocerataceae, Shouchangoceratidae, Shouchangoceratinae.-Zhou: 303.
     2002  Shouchangoceratinae.-Leonova: S34.

Pseudohaloritids characterized by rounded or attenuate "goniatitic" lobes.