Parent taxon: Goniatitina according to D. Korn and M. N. Sudar 2016
See also Korn et al. 1999 and Korn and Titus 2015
Sister taxa: Adrianitoidea, Agathiceratoidea, Cycloloboidea, Dimorphoceratoidea, Gastrioceratoidea, Goniatitidae, Goniatitoidea, Gonioloboceratoidea, Marathonitoidea, Neodimorphoceratoidea, Neoglyphioceratoidea, Neoicoceratoidea, Nomismoceratoidea, Pericycloidea, Popanoceratoidea, Schistoceratoidea, Shumarditoidea, Somoholitoidea, Thalassoceratoidea
Subtaxa: Entogonitidae Girtyoceratidae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Japan (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (29), Morocco (7), the Russian Federation (26), Serbia and Montenegro (13), the United Kingdom (20), United States (93: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (7)
Total: 202 collections including 282 occurrences