1970  Neogoniatites Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia: 56.
     1971  Neogoniatites.-Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia: 209.
     1999  Neogoniatites.-Korn, Klug & Mapes: 356.

Type species: Neogoniatites milleri Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia, 1970, p.56 [OD].

A:   Conch form and ornamentation similar Goniatites. Some forms may be smooth.
G:   Ventral lobe wide, its sides being curved in the upper half; median saddle higher than half the height of entire lobe.
Adventitious lobe V-shaped with slightly curved flanks.

[Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia, 1970, p. 56]: Fairly large shell, pachyconic in the adult stage. Sculpture various,
longitudinal or transverse. Ventral lobe broad; its central width one and a half times more the width of lateral lobe.
Ventral saddle high; hs/hl ratio up to 0.60-0.70. Branches of lateral lobe fairly wide, rather lanceolate. Lateral lobe
galeate, with well-developed process.

The genus is readily distinguishable from Goniatites and Hibernicoceras by more developed ventral lobe;
in Neogoniatites the entire lobe, like its branches, is considerably wider, and the ventral saddle is higher.
The difference between these genera emerges with particular clarity on comparison of the width (in the middle)
of the ventral and lateral lobes; the ventral lobe is one and a half times wider or more, whereas in the older genera
the width of these lobes is generally equal.

[Closely related to Paraglyphioceras, maybe its junior synonym].

[Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia, 1970, p.209: Conch is quite large, in adult specimens
pachycoen.  Whorls are completely involute.  Umbilicus is very tight.  Elements of
sculpture are diverse:  spiral and radial.  Ventral lobe is wide;  its width in the
middle is 1.5 and even more times greater than the width of the lateral lobe.  Medial
saddle is quite wide.  Its height composes 60-70% of the height of the whole lobe.  
Elements of the ventral lobe are wide and rather lanceolate.  Lateral lobe is comperatively
thin, helm- or bell-shaped, with a well developed swelling.]