1969  Glyphiolobinae Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaya: 61.
     1971  Glyphiolobinae.- Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia: 190.
     1972  Glyphiolobinae.- Manger & Quinn: 304.
     1978  Glyphiolobinae.- Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaya: 129.
     1979  Glyphiolobinae.- Manger & Pareyn: 663.

Conch completely involute. Sculpture consisting only of growth lines, sometimes with delicate spiral ornamentation.
Ventral lobe becoming extremely wide by subdivision.

Not only ventral lobe, but also adventitious lobe simple (subfamily Dimorphoceratinae) or subdivided (subfamily
Glyphiolobinae).