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 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), Czechia (6), Germany (2), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (14), Morocco (29), the Russian Federation (6), Serbia (1), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (107: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (1)
• Devonian of Czechia (2), Germany (6), Spain (1), United States (3: Alaska, Maryland, New York)
Total: 221 collections including 317 occurrences