See text Goniatites is a genus of extinct cephalopods belonging to the family Goniatitidae, included in the superfamily Goniatitaceae.

Hibernicoceras and Hypergoniatites are among related genera.

[1] The shell is generally globose with an open but narrow umbilicus, the surface commonly reticulate resulting from longitudinal lirae crossing transverse striae.

The ventral lobe of the suture is rather narrow with a median saddle about or little less than half the height of entire lobe.

Fossils of species within this genus have been found widespread in North America, Eurasia, and north Africa.