''Paraceltites'' is a genus of ammonoid cephalopods in the ceratitid family

Paraceltitidae Paraceltitidae is a family of Middle Permian, Middle and Upper Permian cephalopods, that comprise the earliest of the Ceratitida. Paraceltitidids have variably ribbed, discoidally evolute shells with compressed elliptical whorl sections and simpl ...

, known from the Middle and Upper Permian of Sicily, the Alps, Crimea, Texas and Mexico. The shell of ''Paraceltities'' is evolute with whorls compressed, venter arched and smooth, sides bearing ribs that slant somewhat forward dorso-ventrally. The suture is simple and goniatitic. ''Paraceltities'' was named by Gemmellaro, 1887. The type species is ''Paraceltities hoeferi''.

References

Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology The ''Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,'' published from 1953–2007 by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas, then 2009–present by the University of Kansas Paleontological Institute, is a definitive multi-authore ...

(1957) p. L131-132; R.C Moore (ed). Geological Society of America and Univ. Kansas Press.
The Paleobiology Database ''Paraceltites'' entry

Paraceltitidae Ceratitida genera Permian ammonites Ammonites of North America Guadalupian first appearances Lopingian genus extinctions Paleozoic life of British Columbia {{Ceratitida-stub