1959  Araxoceratidae Ruzhentsev: 57.
     1962  Araxoceratidae.-Ruzhentsev: 88.
     1978  Araxoceratidae.-Zhao, Liang & Zheng: 91.
     2002  Araxoceratidae.-Leonova: S106.

Fig. see TAX5132, TAX5132a.

[Ruzhentsev, 1959]: The shell is from pulley-shaped to disc-shaped. The ventral side is flat, concave, or tectiform, of
various widths. All have 14-16 lobes, not counting supplementary ones. The ventral lobe is narrow, poorly dissected, with
wedge-shaped branches; by length it is shorter or equal to the primary umbilical lobe. There are not more than two well
developed external umbilical lobes; They have ceratitic crenulation at their base. Out from them to the umbilical suture
goes a small wedge-shaped lobe, the quantity, form and situation of which is highly changeable. The dorsal lobe is narrow,
long, bifid. The inner lateral lobe is narrow and wedge-shaped. The inner umbilical lobes are one or more; they are also
wedge-shaped.

Differs from the family Anderssonoceratidae by the presence of ceratitic crenulations lobes, from Otoceratidae -- different form
of shell and a less complicated suture line. Particular attention is attracted to this fact, that the representative family
Araxoceratidae has only two external umbilical lobes with broad form and ceratitic crenulation, while in the Otoceratidae almost
all lobes  situated between the ventral and dorsal lobe are the same.

1978 Zhao et al., p.91: Two subfamilies: Araxoceratinae Ruzhentsev,1959, and Konglingitinae Zhao, Liang & Zheng, 1978.