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Proniceras

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae

Taxonomy
Proniceras is a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Ammonites pronus.

It was assigned to Ammonoidea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Spiticeratinae by Imlay and Jones (1970), Myczynski (1989) and Frau et al. (2016).

Species
P. maupinense, P. pronum, P. subpronum
Species lacking formal opinion data
P. toucasi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1970Proniceras Imlay and Jones p. B3
1989Proniceras Myczynski p. 103
2002Proniceras Sepkoski
2016Proniceras Frau et al. p. 196

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderAmmonitida
suborderOlcostephaninaHaug 1910
superfamilyOlcostephanoidea(Haug 1910)
familyOlcostephanidaeHaug 1910
subfamilySpiticeratinaeSpath 1924
genusProniceras

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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†Proniceras maupinense Imlay and Jones 1970
†Proniceras pronum Oppel 1868
†Proniceras subpronum Burckhardt 1919
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height211.49.5013.711.62.97
shell diameter231.824.641.132.911.7
shell inflation212.810.016.413.24.53

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:27:03
Modified: 2009-10-08 14:14:55
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Tithonian to the top of the Early/Lower Berriasian or 150.80000 to 140.20000 Ma

Collections (17 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0Cuba P. subpronum (57715)
Tithonian152.1 - 145.0Mexico (Puebla) P. sp. (27249)
Tithonian - Berriasian152.1 - 139.8Russian Federation P. pseudonegreli (213004)
Tithonian - Berriasian152.1 - 139.8USA (Oregon) P. sp. (225876)
Late/Upper Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Iraq (Zakho) P. garaense, P. simile (192420)
Late/Upper Tithonian150.8 - 145.0USA (California) P. maupinense (224796 225867)
Late/Upper Tithonian150.8 - 145.0France P. sp. (174769 174771 174784)
Late/Upper Tithonian150.8 - 145.0Peru P. toucasi (37887)
Early/Lower Berriasian145.0 - 140.2France P. pronum (174787 174789 174792 180140) P. sp. (174786)
Early/Lower Berriasian145.0 - 140.2Czech Republic P. jacobi (202901)