1918  Cheiloceras (Staffites) Wedekind: 142.
     1922  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Schmidt: 322.
     1923  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Schindewolf: 312.
     1929  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Lange: 34.
     1931  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Matern: 31.
     1938  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Miller: 24, 171.
     1956  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Müller: 53.
     1957  Cheiloceras (Torleyoceras).-Treatise: L48.
     1960  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Ruzhentsev: 195.
     1962  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Osnovy: 360.
     1971  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Bogoslovskii: 116.
     1975  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Petersen: 27.
     1984  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Becker: 83, 95.
     1993  Cheiloceras (Staffites).-Becker: 249.
     2002  Staffites.-Korn & Klug: 180.

Type species: Goniatites retrorsus curvispina Sandberger & Sandberger 1850/51, p.108 [M].

A:   Conch on young stages evolute, later with closed umbilicus.
D:   Constrictions entire or only ventro-lateral.
G:   Dorsal lobe wide, with two shallow saddles, almost trifid.