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