1920  Gattendorfia Schindewolf: 123.
     1923  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Schindewolf: 407.
     1924  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Schmidt: 120, 150-151.
     1924  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Schindewolf: 105.
     1925  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Schmidt: 527, 535.
     1926  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Schindewolf: 100.
     1929  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Lange: 60.
     1929  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Schmidt: 62.
     1940  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Librovitch: 31.
     1941  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Librovitch: 138.
     1951  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Miller & Collinson: 467,
 ?   1951  Kazakhstania.- Miller & Collinson: 457.
     1952  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Schindewolf: 295.
     1955  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Miller & Garner: 120,
     1955  Kazakhstania.- Miller & Garner: 120, 129.
     1957  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Treatise: L50.
     1960  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Vöhringer: 149.
     1960  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Ruzhencev: 197.
     1962  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.- Osnovy: 363.
     1965  Gattendorfia Schindewolf.-.- Gordon:168.
     1973  Gattendorfia.-Furnish & Manger: 17.
     1994  Gattendorfia.-Korn: 69.
     1995  Gattendorfia.-Ruan: 409,
      ------   Gattendorfia (Gattendorfia).-Ruan: 410
     2007  Gattendorfia.-Korn & Feist: 110. (including Zadelsdorfia Weyer,1972)

Type species: Goniatites subinvolutus Münster,1839, p.23 [OD].

A:   Conch form lenticular to thick-discoidal, with broadly rounded, rarely flattened venter. Early whorls evolute, later
moderately evolute. Umbilicus wide to moderately wide, rarely becoming narrow.
B:   Fine or coarse growth lines are convex, with hyponomic sinus, sometimes crenulate.
C:   Ornamentation in some forms reticulate, rarely with faint ribs.
D:   Constrictions constrictions may be present.
G:   Suture with paralell-sided ventral lobe; lateral lobe on or close to umbilical wall.

Treatise part L revision (J.Kullmann, 2005):

Gattendorfia Schindewolf, 1920, p.123 [*Goniatites subinvolutus Münster, 1839, p.23; OD]. Conch form lenticular to thickly discoidal, with broadly rounded, rarely flattened venter. Early whorls evolute, later moderately evolute. Umbilicus wide to moderately wide, rarely becoming narrow during ontogeny. Fine or coarse growth lines are convex, with hyponomic sinus, sometimes crenulate. Ornamentation in some forms reticulate, rarely with faint ribs; several constrictions may be present. Suture with paralell-sided ventral lobe; lateral lobe on or close to umbilical wall. Many species. Lower Carboniferous  (lower Tournaisian): Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Poland, Russia and Kazakhstan (South Urals), Kazakhstan (Karaganda), China (Guizhou, Xingjiang); Mississippian (upper Kinderhookian): USA (Indiana, ?Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, ?Nevada, Utah).