The Tainoceratoidea are a superfamily in the cephalopod order Nautilida characterized by straight to loosely coiled shells, generally to a degree such that the width is greater than the height, to quadrate whorl section.

Many bore spines, ribs, frills, wings, or nodes.

Tainoceratoids are derived from the Oncocerida through the Rutoceratidae which first appear in the Lower Devonian.

The Rutoceratidae gave rise to the exclusively Devonian Tetragonoceratidae and early on the Mississippian or late the Devonian to the Tainoceratidae and Koninckioceratidae.

The Tainoceratidae gave rise to the Rhiphaeoceratidae which are confined to the Permian.