Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Goniatitidae
Parent taxon: Goniatitina according to K. Tongtherm et al. 2016
See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Korn et al. 1999, Korn and Sudar 2016 and Korn and Titus 2015
Sister taxa: Adrianitoidea, Agathiceratoidea, Cycloloboidea, Dimorphoceratoidea, Gastrioceratoidea, Girtyocerataceae, Goniatitoidea, Gonioloboceratoidea, Marathonitoidea, Neodimorphoceratoidea, Neoglyphioceratoidea, Neoicoceratoidea, Nomismoceratoidea, Pericycloidea, Popanoceratoidea, Schistoceratoidea, Shumarditoidea, Somoholitoidea, Thalassoceratoidea
Subtaxa: Antegoniatitinae Arnsbergites Goniatitella Goniatites Goniatitinae Habadraitinae Hibernicoceras Hypergoniatites Junggarites Neoglyphioceras Neogoniatites Paraglyphioceras Progoniatitinae Sygambrites Sygambritinae
Type: Goniatites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Italy (2 collections)
• Permian of Italy (1), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (22), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), the Czech Republic (6), Germany (3), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (37), Morocco (20), the Russian Federation (10), Serbia and Montenegro (6), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (13), United States (114: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (1)
• Devonian of the Czech Republic (2), Germany (6), Spain (1), United States (3: Alaska, Maryland, New York)
Total: 251 collections including 363 occurrences