''Glyptodendron'' is a Lower Silurian westonocerid characterized by compressed cyrtocones with a narrowly rounded dorsum and greatest width in the ventrolateral region. Sutures slope forward from the dorsum which is on the longitudinally concave side. The siphuncle is slightly ventral from the center. Segments are subspherical in the young; equally broad but shorter in the adult. No endosiphuncular deposits are known. The surface of the shell is covered by obliquely intersecting rows of scale-like pits. It was first described by E. W. Claypole as part of a "tree-like fossil plant" thought to be similar to '' Lepidodendron''. The type material is from

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. Its generic etymology is modified from the Greek ''glypto'' (γλύφω) for "I engrave" and it "alludes to the depressed areoles" which Claypole erroneously interpreted from the superficial pits across the shell as being similar to those seen in lycopsid plants. Its specific epithet refers to it the locality from which the fossils were recovered by Leven Siler, a student of Professor E. W. Claypole (Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio). The same locality produced typical Silurian-aged fossils of the Niagara Group. Though originally described as a plant fossil, fifteen years after its description, the type material of ''Glyptodendron'' was re-examined by noted paleontologist, August F. Foerste who recognized its true identity as a nautiloid. Foerste thought it might prove to be referable to the better known '' Cyrtoceras'', a previously described nautiloid taxon.

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