1946  Donetzoceras Librovich, p.79.
     1960  Donetzoceras - Ruzhentsev, p.381.
     1979  Donetzoceras - Saunders, Manger & Ramsbottom, p.1136.

Type species: Gastrioceras donetzense Librovich,1939, p.136.

see fig. TAX5528 B.

A:  Conch relatively small, thick-discoidal. Inner whorls evolute, later stages involute.
C:  Sculpture consisting of nodelike riblets and umbilical plications which disappear at maturity.
B:  Growth lines form shallow ventral sinus and ventrolateral salient.
E:  Shallow lateral sulci may be developed.
G:  Ventral lobe pointed; median saddle about half as high as entire ventral lobe. Adventitious lobe rounded and
shorter than ventral lobe.