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Pronorites

Pronorites
Temporal range: Visean
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Order: Prolecanitida
Superfamily: Medlicottiaceae
Family: Pronoritidae
Genus: Pronorites
Mojsisovics 1882
Species
  • P. arkansasensis
  • P. llanoensis
  • P. mediterranea
  • P. pseudotimorensis
  • P. siebenthali

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

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.


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