1882  Anarcestes Mojsisovics: 181.
     1883  Anarcestes.- Hyatt: 309.
pars 1895  Anarcestes.- Holzapfel: 69.
     1903  Anarcestes.- Foord & Crick: 38.
     1906  Anarcestes.- Siemiradzki: 229.
     1918  Anarcestes.- Wedekind: 106.
?    1933  Anarcestes.- Schindewolf: 90  [emend.].
     1947  Anarcestes.- Nalivkina: 159.
     1957  Anarcestes.- Treatise: L31.
     1958  Anarcestes.- Bogoslovsky: 70.
     1959  Anarcestes.- Petter: 91.
     1960  Anarcestes.- Kullmann: 41.
     1960  Anarcestes.- Ruzhentsev: 170.
     1962  Anarcestes.- Osnovy: 338.
     1966  Anarcestes.- Babin: 359.
     1969  Anarcestes.- Bogoslovskii: 153.
     1978  Anarcestes.- House: 26.
     1983  Anarcestes.- Chlupac & Turek: 90.
     2002  Anarcestes.-Korn & Klug: 127.

Type species: Goniatites plebeius Barrande, 1865, pl.5 fig.16-18, 22, 23 [SD Foord & Crick, 1897, p.38, non ! = lateseptatus
Beyrich, 1837, teste Chlupac & Turek, 1983, p.90].

[Chlupac & Turek, 1983, p.90: Discoidal to very broadly discoidal shell lacking ventrolateral furrows; umbilicus wide. Embryonal shell incompletely coiled, protoconch hemispherical and slightly curved, umbilical perforation small. Surface of shell with growth lines in some species with indications of ribs umbolaterally. Suture with broadly rounded dorsal lobe, small lateral lobe (situated near the umbilical wall in late growth stages), and deep, narrow ventral lobe.]