1925  Pronorites Schmidt: 545.
     1934  Tridentites Schindewolf: 170.
     1957  Tridentites.- Treatise: L71.
     1960  Tridentites.- Ruzhentsev: 187.
     1962  Tridentites.- Osnovy: 350.

Type species: Pronorites tridens Schmidt, 1925, p.545 [OD] = Goniatites mixolobus de Koninck, 1880, p.122 (non Phillips, 1836,
p.237).

A:   Conch with wide umbilicus, low aperture.
G:   First lateral lobe trifid, 2 or 3  following umbilical lobes acute or rounded.