Parent taxon: Goniatitina according to D. Korn and M. N. Sudar 2016
See also Korn et al. 1999 and Korn and Titus 2015
Sister taxa: Adrianitoidea, Agathiceratoidea, Cycloloboidea, Dimorphoceratoidea, Gastrioceratoidea, Goniatitidae, Goniatitoidea, Gonioloboceratoidea, Marathonitoidea, Neodimorphoceratoidea, Neoglyphioceratoidea, Neoicoceratoidea, Nomismoceratoidea, Pericycloidea, Popanoceratoidea, Schistoceratoidea, Shumarditoidea, Somoholitoidea, Thalassoceratoidea
Subtaxa: Entogonitidae Girtyoceratidae
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Japan (1 collection)
• Carboniferous of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Czechia (1), Germany (4), Kazakhstan (29), Morocco (8), the Russian Federation (26), Serbia (13), the United Kingdom (20), United States (93: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (7)
Total: 203 collections including 283 occurrences