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 triadicum, Orthoceras styriacum, Orthoceras acum, Orthoceras baconicum, Orthoceras celticum, Orthoceras indoaustralicum, Orthoceras increscens, Orthoceras billiemense, Pseudorthocerida, Orthoceras subellipticum, Orthoceras lennaense, Orthoceras shastense, Orthoceras sandlingense, Orthoceras spitiense, Orthoceras lateseptatum, Orthoceras nodosum, Orthoceras multilabiatum, Orthoceras mojsisovicsi, Orthoceras pulchristriatum, Orthoceras variestriatum, Orthoceras austriacum, Orthoceras blakei, Orthoceras pulchellum, Orthoceras subtiliseptatum, Orthoceras rotundulum
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