1928  Glatziellinae Schindewolf: 157.
     1937  Glatziellidae.- Schindewolf: 73 [nom.transl.].
     1954  Glatziellidae.- Miller & Furnish.
     1957  Glatziellidae.- Treatise: L42.
     1960  Glatziellidae.- Ruzhentsev: 239.
     1962  Glatziellidae.- Osnovy: 403.
     1981  Glatziellidae.- Bogoslovskii: 75.
     2002  Glatziellidae.-Korn & Klug: 244.

A:   Conch small, "clymenoid" to "goniatitoid", i.e. evolute to involute, umbilicus more or less narrow, venter carinate.
      No triangular coiling or deep constrictions. Living chamber more than one volution. Septal necks short to long
      cylindrical but not forming a continuous tube.
B:   Growth lines with deep lateral sinus and prominent ventrolateral salient.
C:   Mostly ribbed.
G:   Adult suture invariably with median saddle in ventral lobe. Sutural formula: [Germ.] (E1 E1) L I, [Russ.] (V1 V1) U:D.