1882  Aphyllites von Mojsisovics: 181.    
     1900  Paraphyllites Hyatt: 549.
     1933  Paraphyllites.- Schindewolf: 83.
     1957  Paraphyllites.- Treatise: L31.
     1959  Paraphyllites.- Petter: 89.
     1960  Paraphyllites.- Ruzhentsev: 169.
     1962  Paraphyllites.- Osnovy: 337.
     1964  Paraphyllites.- Erben: 203.
     1969  Paraphyllites.- Bogoslovskii: 148.
     1983  Agoniatites (Paraphyllites).-Chlupac & Turek: 53.
     2002  Paraphyllites.-Korn & Klug: 81.

Type species: Goniatites tabuloides Barrande, 1865.

[Chlupac & Turek, 1983, p.53: Shell very thinly discoidal, moderately involute, rapidly expanding.
Lateral sides strongly flattened, imprint zone shallow. Ribs and distinct ventrolateral sulci absent.]