1937  Crimites Tumanskaia: 146.
     1952  Crimites.- Ruzhentsev: 80.
     1957  Crimites.- Treatise: L67.
     1960  Crimites.- Ruzhentsev: 228.
     1961  Crimites.- Glenister & Furnish: 726.
     1962  Crimites.- Osnovy: 392.
     1972  Crimites.-Davis: 47 [with mature modifications of species].
     2002  Crimites.-Leonova: S58.

Type species: Agathiceras Krotowi Karpinsky,1889, p.66 [SD Glenister & Furnish,1961, p.726].

[Ruzhentsev, 1950, p.202 :  Conch ball shaped or strongly inflated, absolutely involute, with very tight umbilicus.  Various sculpture:  in some cases represented by weak spiral and more distinct, serrated, radial ribs, in other cases the both rib types are almost equally developed and, thirdly, sometimes the spiral ribs are more distinct.  Radial lines bent forward on the siphuncular side.  Siphuncular lobe devided in two thin, sharp prongs.  3 Outer lateral lobes, of which the first two are cup-shaped, the third asymmetric, sharp or two-pronged.  Umbilical lboes small, their number varying.  An antisiphuncular and three lateral lobes developed on the inner side.  All inner lobes connected to outer ones without break.]

[Leonova 1989, p. 159:] Conch subsphaericone to subdiscocone, venter flat or rounded, completely invoulte, umbilicus extremely tight.  Sculpture reticulated, of different types, festooned ribs bing more common.  Equidistant lyrae better expressed than lamellae.  Suture line consists of a ventral lobe, which is divided into two thin parts, a dorsal lobe, three external and three internal lateral lobes.  In addition, some small lobes in the umbilical zone present.