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Procerites schloenbachi

Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Procerites schloenbachi

Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Procerites schloenbachi

Saint-Benin-d'Azy, Nevers, Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Description

Procerites is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil cephalopods, the ammonites. It lived during the Jurassic Period.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procerites, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	5429727	https://www.gbif.org/species/5429727
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	15450	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=15450

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Perisphinctidae : Procerites

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonitida : Perisphinctidae : Procerites

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea
order	Ammonitida	Hyatt 1889
suborder	Ammonitina	Hyatt 1889
superfamily	Perisphinctoidea	(Steinman 1890)
family	Perisphinctidae	Steinmann 1890
genus	Procerites	Siemiradzki 1898

Scientific Name

Procerites Siemiradzki, 1898

Name Published In

Palaeontographica, 54: 78, 303

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Procerites	subgenus	belongs to Perisphinctes	implied	Yokoyama, 1904
Procerites	genus	belongs to Perisphinctidae	stated with evidence	Imlay, 1953
Procerites	genus	belongs to Zigzagiceratinae	stated with evidence	Arkell et al., 1957
Procerites	genus	belongs to Perisphinctidae	stated with evidence	Besnosov and Mitta, 1993
Procerites	genus	belongs to Ammonoidea	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Procerites	genus	belongs to Zigzagiceratinae	stated with evidence	Zatoń, 2010
Procerites	genus	belongs to Perisphinctidae	stated with evidence	Majidifard, 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

172 - 168 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

166 - 164 Ma
Middle Jurassic

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ammonoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procerites

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Gracilisphinctes (Gracilisphinctes) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		26	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Gracilisphinctes (Prevalia) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		3	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites (Procerites) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		10	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Ammonites laeviplex species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Ammonites quercinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Choffatia densicordata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gracilisphinctes evolutus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gracilisphinctes kysylalmensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gracilisphinctes paragracilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gracilisphinctes pseudoimitator species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Gracilisphinctes suprapalatinus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Perisphinctes pseudorjazanensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Perisphinctes verciacensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Procerites fowleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Procerites gallus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites hodsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites imitator ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		7	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites irregularis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	166 Ma Middle Jurassic	166 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites laeviplex ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites lissajousi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Procerites magnificus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Procerites progracilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Procerites pseudoperspicuus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites pseudorjazanensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites quenstedti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Procerites quercinus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites schloenbachi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Procerites tmetolobus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Procerites twinhoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Procerites verciacensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	168 Ma Middle Jurassic	168 Ma Middle Jurassic
Siemiradzkia galla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Siemiradzkia pseudoperspicua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Siemiradzkia stephanovi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Siemiradzkia thressa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Zigzagites imitator species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Euprocerites Wetzel, 1950	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Perisphinctidae : *Euprocerites*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1904	Perisphinctes (Procerites) Yokoyama
1922	Parkinsonites Buckman
1922	Zigzagites Buckman
1950	Euprocerites Wetzel
1953	Procerites Imlay
1957	Procerites Arkell et al. p. 314
1957	Gracilisphinctes Arkell et al. p. 316

Year	Name and Author
1958	Procerites (Gracilisphinctes) Arkell
1993	Procerites Besnosov and Mitta p. 114
1993	Gracilisphinctes Besnosov and Mitta p. 136
2002	Gracilisphinctes Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Procerites Sepkoski, Jr.
2010	Procerites Zato? p. 133
2015	Procerites Majidifard p. 36

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Imlay R. W. (1953) Callovian (Jurassic) ammonites from the United States and Alaska Part 2. Alaska Peninsula and Cook Inlet regions, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 249-B, 41-108

Arkell W. J., Furnish W. M., et al (1957) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Mollusca 4, Cephalopoda - Ammonoidea, 1-490

Besnosov N. V., Mitta V. V. (1993) , Pozdnebayosskie i Batskie Ammonitidy Severnogo Kavkaza i Sredney Azii, 1-347

Zatoń M. (2010) Bajocian-Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) ammonites from the Polish Jura. Part 2: Families Stephanoceratidae, Perisphinctidae, Parkinsoniidae, Morphoceratidae and Tulitidae, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 292, 115-213

Majidifard M. R. (2015) Late Bajocian-Bathonian ammonites from northeast Iran, Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 11, 25-41

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Palaeontographica, 45, 78 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 301 Designation, under the Plenary Powers, of a type species for Procerites Siemiradzki, 1898 (class Cephalopoda, order Ammonoidea) in harmony with accustomed nomenclatorial usage.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 8(18), 249-260 (1954) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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