1836  Goniatites spirorbis Phillips: 237, pl.20 fig.51-55.
     1849  Goniatites spirorbis--Brown: 30, pl.21 fig.45, 46.
     1924  Nomismoceras spirorbis.-Bisat: 96.
     1991  Nomismoceras spirorbis.-Kuzina in Kuzina & Poletaev: 43, pl.4 fig.15-17.
     2008  Nomismoceras spirorbis.-Nikolaeva: 33, text-fig.23, pl.2 fig.5-7.

Possible lectotype BMNH C270a, designated by Foord & Crick, 1894, p.214.