Genus Lunupharciceras Korn in Korn & Klug, 2002

Type species

Goniatites lunulicosta Sandberger & Sandberger, 1850 (original designation).

Diagnosis

Pharciceratinae with discoidal subevolute to evolute juvenile stage, whorl profile weakly depressed. Adult stage discoidal and subevolute to evolute with compressed whorl profile; WER moderate, venter rounded or tabulate. Adult stage with or without ventrolateral grooves. Suture line with wide external lobe, short E 1 lobe, high median saddle, deep lanceolate E 2 lobe, smaller lanceolate lateral lobe, three outer and two or three inner umbilical lobes. Suture line formula sequence of the five or six U lobes so far ambiguous and controversial.

Included species

Goniatites lunulicosta Sandberger & Sandberger, 1850, Rhenish Mountains; Schindewolfoceras alcaldei Montesinos & Henn, 1986, Cantabrian Mountains; Lunupharciceras incisum Bockwinkel, Becker & Ebbighausen, 2013, Anti-Atlas; Prolecanites Kiliani Frech, 1902, Montagne Noire; Lunupharciceras serpentinum Bockwinkel, Becker & Ebbighausen, 2009, Anti-Atlas; Lunupharciceras kochi sp. nov., Rhenish Mountains.