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