1962 Proshumardites (Trigonoshumardites) Kullmann: 333.
1971 Pericleites.-Ruzhencev & Bogoslovskaya: 236.

Type species: Proshumardites (Trigonoshumardites) wocklumerioides Kullmann, 1962, p.333 [OD].

A: Conch form and spiral ornamentation like Proshumardites. Coiling of early whorls usually triangular.
D: Three strong constrictions per whorls on early and middle stages present.
G: Ventral lobe relatively wide; median saddle higher than half the height of entire ventral lobe. Sides of ventral lobe diverging, less in apicad half, strongly in upper half; inflexion point of the sides about half as high as entire lobe.

Some of Proshumardites species had been assigned by some authors to Pericleites RENZ, 1910 (see TAX5703); its type however, Pericleites atticus, had been secured from Lower Permian (?Asselian) strata (see RENZ, 1955, p.413, 416), whereas Proshumardites appears to be restricted to Carboniferous (Serpukhovian-Atokan/Moscovian); Pericleites has no spiral ornamentation nor constrictions,
but prorsiradiate growth striae.