1924  Miroclymeniinae Schindewolf: 108.
     1929  Miroclymeniinae.-Lange: 69.
     1937  Wocklumeriidae Schindewolf: 61.
     1955  Wocklumeriidae.-Schindewolf: 422.
     1957  Wocklumeriidae.-Treatise: p.L41.
pt. 1960  Wocklumeriidae.-Kullmann: 78.
     1960  Wocklumeriidae.-Petter: 19.
     1960  Wocklumeriidae.-Ruzhentsev: 239.
     1962  Wocklumeriidae.-Osnovy: 402.
     1981  Wocklumeriidae.-Bogoslovskii: 68.
     2002  Wocklumeriidae.-Korn & Klug: 261.

A:   Conch of moderate size, "goniatitoid", broadly subdiscoidal or subglobular, strongly involute with narrow or closed
       umbilicus. Septa adorally convex in median plane; septal necks long and cylindircal, but not forming a continuous
       siphuncular tube in the very high chambers. No ventral keel.
B:   Growth lines nearly rectiradiate, without prominent ribs, sometimes with faint spiral lines.
D:   Whorls coiled triangularly with three deep constrictions at least on early ontogenetic stages.
G:   Suture consisting of undivided narrow ventral and dorsal lobe, with three umbilical lobes. Sutural formula:
       [Germ.] E L U2 U3 U1 I, [Russ.] V U U1:U2 I D.

      The triangular feature of the wocklumeriids are regarded herein as analogous to conch characters of the
       Parawocklumeriina, because these characters are also present in coeval species of the order Goniatitida; the
       similarity appears to be the consequence of convergent evolution during the upper Famennian (Wocklumeria Stage).

       Fig. TAX4166 (sutures): A: Wocklumeria sphaeroides, B: Epiwocklumeria applanata, C: Glatziella helenae, D:
       Postglatziella carinata, E: Kamptoclymenia endogona, F: Riphaeoclymenia canaliculata, G: Parawocklumeria paradoxa,
       H: Triaclymenia triangularis.