• Conoglobigerina dagestanica (Morozova in Morozova & Moskalenko, 1961) Simmons et al 1997
• Globigerina (Conoglobigerina) avarica Morozova, in Morozova & Moskalenko, 1961 [according to Gradstein et al. 2017)

The original description by Morozova and Moskalenko (1961) mentions a highly variable morphology regarding the number of chambers in the last whorl, height of test and shape of the trochospire. Typically the diameter of the test is about the same as the height, or the test is higher than wide. As seen from the apex (first chambers) upwards to the third and last whorl, the test may be slightly triangular in outline. Up to 5 chambers in the initial (often very small) whorls and 3 to 4 in the final (third whorl) which increases rapidly in width and height; chambers subglobular in shape with straight sutures; the intra-umbilical aperture is a low to medium high symmetrical arch.

In the topotype assemblage from the Khouroukra section, Dagestan, collected by Larisa Glinskikh, Novosibirsk (Gradstein et al., 2017, and LM photographs displayed here), a majority of specimens is also about as high as wide, but higher or wider specimens also occur.  The test shape may be quite variable, with many specimens having a rather irregular, deformed test. There are specimens with 3, 3-4 and 4 chambers in the last whorl; aperture is generally a low arch, and rarely a bit higher, and sometimes looped. Apertures have a thickened rim around it, above the umbilicus. A small bulla may be present.

 The 20 or so specimens described by Wernli and Görög (2007) under Globuligerina aff. dagestanica (Morozova) from the Upper Bajocian through Lower Bathonian of the Southern Jura Mountains in France are more triangular in outline and have less globose chambers. More comparative study is warranted to ascertain that G. dagestanica also occurs in France.

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