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 pulchristriatum, Orthoceras lateseptatum, Orthoceras austriacum, Orthoceras styriacum, Orthoceras mojsisovicsi, Orthoceras subellipticum, Orthoceras billiemense, Orthoceras sandlingense, Orthoceras nodosum, Orthoceras multilabiatum, Orthoceras rotundulum, Orthoceras variestriatum, Orthoceras increscens, Orthoceras acum, Pseudorthocerida, Orthoceras lennaense, Orthoceras blakei, Orthoceras indoaustralicum, Orthoceras pulchellum, Orthoceras spitiense, Orthoceras baconicum, Orthoceras celticum, Orthoceras shastense, Orthoceras subtiliseptatum
Subtaxa: Lamellorthoceratidae Lituitidae Sinoceratidae Sphooceratidae
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 (30), Estonia (3), Latvia (1), Lithuania (2), Norway (25), South Korea (7), Spain (1), Sweden (15), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 121 collections including 153 occurrences