Alternative spellings: Lituitina, Lituitina
Parent taxon: Orthoceratoidea according to A. Pohle et al. 2022
See also Dzik 1984, Kröger 2008, Kröger 2013, Kröger et al. 2007 and Shevyrev 2006
Sister taxa: Actinocerida, Dissidocerida, Offleyoceratidae, Orthocerida, Paraphragmitidae, Protobactritidae, Rioceratida, Slemmestadoceras, Orthoceras austriacum, Orthoceras mojsisovicsi, Orthoceras subtiliseptatum, Orthoceras celticum, Orthoceras increscens, Orthoceras spitiense, Orthoceras rotundulum, Orthoceras pulchellum, Orthoceras indoaustralicum, Orthoceras blakei, Orthoceras styriacum, Orthoceras lennaense, Orthoceras sandlingense, Pseudorthocerida, Orthoceras multilabiatum, Orthoceras billiemense, Orthoceras nodosum, Orthoceras pulchristriatum, Orthoceras shastense, Orthoceras triadicum, Orthoceras acum, Orthoceras variestriatum, Orthoceras subellipticum, Orthoceras baconicum, Orthoceras lateseptatum
Subtaxa: Lamellorthoceratidae Lituitidae Sinoceratidae Sphooceratidae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of Germany (2 collections), Italy (1), Morocco (13)
• Silurian of Italy (7), Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Wisconsin)
• Uhaku of Norway (2)
• Arenig of Argentina (1)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Canada (3: Newfoundland and Labrador), China (29), Estonia (3), Latvia (1), Lithuania (2), Norway (25), South Korea (7), Spain (1), Sweden (15), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 120 collections including 152 occurrences