1836  Goniatites excavatus Phillips: 235, pl.19 fig.33-35.
     1849  Goniatites excavatus.-Brown: 30, pl.21 fig.49, 50.
     1897  Glyphioceras excavatum.-Foord & Crick: 199.
     1993  Bollandoceras excavatum.-Roberts, Jones & Jenkins: 367.
     2008  Bollandoceras excavatum.-Nikolaeva: 37, text-fig.26, pl.2 fig.12, pl.3 fig.4.

Lectotype: BMNH C251a, designated by Foord & Crick, 1897, p.200.

[Species insufficiently known; Foord & Crick give a description of the material].