1882 Aphyllites von Mojsisovics: 181.
1900 Paraphyllites Hyatt: 549.
1933 Paraphyllites.- Schindewolf: 83.
1957 Paraphyllites.- Treatise: L31.
1959 Paraphyllites.- Petter: 89.
1960 Paraphyllites.- Ruzhencev: 169.
1962 Paraphyllites.- Osnovy: 337.
1964 Paraphyllites.- Erben: 203.
1969 Paraphyllites.- Bogoslovsky: 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.]