1970  Anthracoceratites Ramsbottom: 57.  
     1978  Anthracoceratites.-Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia: 133.

Type species: Anthracoceratites deansi Ramsbottom, 1970, p.57  [OD].

B:   Growth lines biconvex; ventro-lateral salient on the flanks rather prominent.
G:   Lobes have the tendency to become denticulate.

[Assignment to family Dimorphoceratidae questionable; for discussion see RUZHENTSEV & BOGOSLOVSKAIA, 1978,
p.129: Anthracoceras is restricted to Serpukhovian, Anthracoceratites is Bashkirian in age. Gap: Homoceras Zone and lower Kinderscoutian].