1889  Paraprolecanites Karpinskii: 8.
     1925  Paraprolecanites.-Schmidt: 544.
     1926  Epicanites.-Schindewolf: 75.
     1962  Prolecanites.-Osnovy: 348.

Type species: Goniatites mixolobus Sandberger & Sandberger,1850/51, pl.9 fig.6a [= Paraprolecanites mixolobus Dollé, p.254,  = Paraprolecanites sandbergeri Schmidt,1925, p.544], non Goniatites mixolobus Phillips 1836.