Pronorites

Pronorites is a prolecanitid genus from the middle and upper Carboniferous, upper Mississippian and Pennsylvanian. Distribution is wide spread.

Pronorites
Temporal range: Visean[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Cephalopoda
Subclass:
Ammonoidea
Order:
Prolecanitida
Superfamily:
Medlicottiaceae
Family:
Pronoritidae
Genus:
Pronorites

Mojsisovics 1882
Species [2]
  • P. arkansasensis
  • P. llanoensis
  • P. mediterranea
  • P. pseudotimorensis
  • P. siebenthali

Pronorites, as for the Pronoritidae, produced discoidal shells with no prominent sculpture, in which the ventral lobe of the suture has three prongs. In Pronorites the prongs of the 1st lateral lobe are simple, undivided.

References
Notes
  1. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. "Paleobiology Database - Pronorites". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
Bibliography
  • Miller, Furnish, and Schindewolf (1957) Paleozoic Ammonidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L, Ammonoidea. Geological Soc. of America.
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