1937  Entogonoceras Plummer & Scott: text-fig.88 (nom.
           nud.).
     1940  Lyrogoniatites Miller & Furnish: 368.
     1957  Lyrogoniatites.- Treatise: L58.
     1960  Lyrogoniatites.- Ruzhencev: 210.
     1962  Lyrogoniatites.- Osnovy: 374.
     1971  Lyrogoniatites.- Furnish & Saunders: 7.
     1971  Lyrogoniatites.- Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia: 273.

Type species: Lyrogoniatites newsomi georgiensis Miller & Furnish, p.368 [OD].

A,F: Similar Neoglyphioceras, but with broader conch and lower number (30-60) of longitudinal lirae.
D:   Constrictions usually deep and narrow, with ventrolateral salient and ventral sinus on all growth stages.
G:   Ventral lobe rather narrow.