1884  Paralegoceras Hyatt: 327.
     1889  Paralegoceras.- Karpinsky: 61.
     1893  Paralegoceras.- Hyatt: 474.
     1896  Paralegoceras.- Smith: 263.
     1903  Paralegoceras.- Smith: 399.
     1914  Paralegoceras.- Wedekind: 13.
pt. 1917  Schistoceras.- Wedekind: 161.
     1918  Paralegoceras.- Wedekind: 160.
     1925  Paralegoceras.- Schmidt: 598.
     1937  Paralegoceras.- Plumer & Scott: 198.
     1937  Bendoceras.- Plummer & Scott: 210.
     1940  Paralegoceras.- Miller & Furnish: 521.
     1952  Paralegoceras.- G. & H. Termier: 15.
     1957  Paralegoceras.- Treatise: L65.
     1960  Paralegoceras.- Ruzhentsev: 219.
     1962  Paralegoceras.- Osnovy: 383
     1965  Paralegoceras.- Gordon: 267.
     1997  Paralegoceras.- Mapes et al.: 211.

Type species: Goniatites iowensis Meek & Worthen, 1860, p. 471.

Paralegoceras HYATT, 1884, p.327 [*Goniatites iowensis MEEK & WORTHEN, 1860, p.471; M]. [= Bendoceras
PLUMMER & SCOTT, 1937, type Goniatites texanus SHUMARD, 1863, p.109, OD (subj.), for discussion see
MILLER & FURNISH, 1940, p.522].

A:   Conch large, subdiscoidal; early whorls evolute, with triangular coiling. Adult stages moderately involute.
B-C: Ornamentation reticulate, transverse umbilical nodes present, disappearing at maturity.
G:   Ventral lobe wide, with high median saddle. Second umbilical lobe independent on adult stage, sutural formula:
[Germ.] E1EmE1ALU2U1I, [Russ.] (V1V1)LU1:U2:ID.

[Mapes et al., 1997, p.211: Conch subdiscoidal; early volutions may be triangularly coiled and have distinctive
umbilical nodes. Early volutions having reticulate ornament. Suture 10-lobed.]