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Neopronorites prior

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Pronoritidae

Taxonomy
Neopronorites prior was named by Ruzhentsev (1949). Its type specimen is PIN 320/73, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Ural river, west of Nikolsk, bed 28, which is in a Gzhelian marine siliciclastic in the Russian Federation.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1949Neopronorites prior Ruzhentsev p. 78 figs. Pl 3, figs 8-10; text-fig 35
1950Neopronorites prior Ruzhentsev p. 63 figs. Pl 1, fig 5; text-fig 8

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderProlecanitidaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyMedlicottioidea(Karpinsky 1889)
familyPronoritidaeFrech 1901
subfamilyNeopronoritinaeWeyer 1972
genusNeopronoritesRuzhencev 1936
speciespriorRuzhentsev 1949

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.

Neopronorites prior Ruzhentsev 1949
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
shell height113.2
shell diameter126.0
shell inflation14.50

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-10-06 14:37:20
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:37:20
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Gzhelian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Russian Federation Neopronorites prior (172256 type locality: 172260)