Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Gattendorfiidae
Parent taxon: Prionoceratoidea according to W. M. Furnish et al. 2009
See also Bockwinkel and Ebbighausen 2006, Korn 2006 and Korn and Klug 2002
Sister taxa: Acrocanitidae, Cheiloceratidae, Prionoceratidae, Pseudarietitidae, Voehringeritidae
Subtaxa: Acutimitoceras Costimitoceras Gattendorfia Gattendorfiinae Gattenpleura Kazakhstania Nicimitoceras Weyerella Zadelsdorfia
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of Austria (6 collections), China (6), France (1), Germany (9), Morocco (6), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (23: Arkansas, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah)
• Devonian of Austria (1), France (1), Germany (5), Morocco (1)
Total: 62 collections including 179 occurrences