Genus Synpharciceras Schindewolf, 1940

Type species

Goniatites clavilobus Sandberger & Sandberger, 1850, by original designation.

Diagnosis

Synpharciceratinae with thinly pachyconic to thickly discoidal, subevolute to evolute juvenile stage, whorl profile depressed. Adult stage subinvolute to involute with compressed whorl profile; venter rounded. Adult stage with or without ventrolateral grooves. Suture line with wide external lobe, short, funnel-shaped E 1 lobe, large, deep lanceolate E 2 lobe, smaller lanceolate lateral lobe, and up to 13 outer and inner umbilical lobes. Suture line formula (E 2 E 1 E 2) L U 2 U 4 U 6 …U 12: U 13 …U 5 U 3 U 1 I.

Included species

Goniatites clavilobus Sandberger & Sandberger, 1850, Rhenish Mountains; Synpharciceras frequens Bockwinkel, Becker & Ebbighausen, 2013, Anti-Atlas; Synpharciceras spirale Bockwinkel, Becker & Ebbighausen, 2009, Anti-Atlas; Pharciceras tafilense Termier & Termier, 1950, Anti-Atlas.