1897  Cheiloceras Frech: 125.
     1908  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras): 583.
     1918  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras).-Schindewolf: 312.
     1921  Cheiloceras (Eucheiloceras) Schmidt: 541.
     1929  Cheilocerotes Strand: 7.
     1957  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras).-Treatise: L48.
     1959  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras).-Petter: 228.
     1960  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras).-Ruzhentsev: 195.
     1962  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras).-Osnovy: 360.
     1971  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras).-Bogoslovskii: 101.
     1975  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras).-Petersen: 27.
     1984  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras).-Becker: 84.
     1993  Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras).-Becker: 235.
     2002  Nehdenites Korn & Klug: 173.

Type species: Goniatites subpartitus Münster, 1893, p.18 [SD Wedekind, 1918, p.144].

A:   Conch evolute on young stages (four volutions), later closing umbilicus, aperture low.
D:   Constrictions entirely on flanks and venter, crossing growth lines.
G:   Internal lobe wide and shallowly rounded.