Paprothites Bartzsch & Weyer 1987

Genus Paprothites Bartzsch & Weyer, 1987 Type species Pseudarietites westfalicus var. dorsoplana Schmidt, 1924: 52; original designation. Genus diagnosis Genus of the subfamily Pseudarietitinae without ventral keel. Sculpture with simple ribs. Genus composition Central Europe (Schmidt 1924; Vöhringer 1960; Korn & Weyer 2003): Pseudarietites westfalicus var. dorsoplana Schmidt, 1924; Pseudarietites raricostatus Vöhringer, 1960; Paprothites ruzhencevi Korn & Weyer, 2003; Paprothites beckeri sp. nov.; Paprothites kullmanni sp. nov. South China (Ruan 1981; Sheng 1989): Pseudarietites ellipticus Ruan, 1981; Pseudarietites platyventrus Ruan, 1981; Pseudarietites subquadratus Ruan, 1981; Pseudarietites daposhangensis Sheng, 1989. Remarks Paprothites is easily separable from Weyerella in the presence of ribs and from the members of the Pseudarietitinae by the lack of the ventral keel.Published as part of Korn, Dieter & Weyer, Dieter, 2023, The ammonoids from the Gattendorfia Limestone of Oberrödinghausen (Early Carboniferous; Rhenish Mountains, Germany), pp. 1-230 in European Journal of Taxonomy 882 on page 171, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.882.2177, http://zenodo.org/record/817758