1947  Dombarites Librovich: 56 (nom. nud.).
     1957  Dombarites.- Librovich: 257.
     1960  Dombarites.- Ruzhentsev: 216.
pt. 1961  Mesoglyphioceras.- Pareyn: 143.
     1962  Dombarites.- Osnovy: 379.
     1970  Dombarites.- Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia: 60.
     1971  Dombarites.- Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia: 224.
pt. 1980  Dombarites.- Kullmann & Pitz: 297.
     1980  Revilloceras Wagner-Gentis: 13.
pt. 1999  Dombarites.- Korn, Klug & Mapes: 358 (pars Lusitanoceras).
     2005  Dombarites.-Nikolaeva & Konovalova: S566.
     2006  Dombarites.-Korn & Ebbighausen in Klug et al.: 37.

Type species: Dombarites tectus Librovich, 1957, p. 258.

A:   Conch form in general like Goniatites. Several species with triangular whorls on immature stages; some species
      with oxycone venter on adult stages.
B:   Ornamentation usually with crenulate growth lines and closely spaced lirae; some species without spiral ornamentation
      on middle and later growth stages.
G:   Ventral lobe relatively wide, median saddle about half as high or higher, in some species reaching two third of height of
       entire ventral lobe. Sides of ventral lobe diverging, less in apicad part, strongly in upper part; inflexion point coinciding
       with height of median saddle. First lateral saddle acute or subacute. Adventitious lobe wide, with short processes on
       sides, but not tridentate.

[Transitional to Lusitanoceras. Revilloceras has been established for forms with blunted tips of ventrolateral saddle,
a general character in small forms].

[Ruzhentsev & Bogoslovskaia, 1970, p. 60]: Shell large, pachyconic in adult state, sometimes with carinate ventral side
in terminal stage. Whorls completely involute. Umbilicus narrow or very narrow. Total of 8 lobes. Ventral lobe considerably
broader than first lateral lobe, with strongly diverging biconvex sides. Ventral saddle high; hs/hl at least 0.65. Branches of
ventral lobe rather cuneiform. First lateral saddle curved-angular, acuminate above. Lateral lobe moderately broad
with processes on sides and long cuspidate process.Distinguished from other genera of its family by the more primitive
suture line: in Dombarites the lateral lobe is moderately broad, with small projections along the sides, while
in other genera it is far broader, tripartite or even broken up into three indepent lobes.