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

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PronoritinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Prolecanitida
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pronorites on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
4 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Pronorites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pronorites and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Pronorites and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Druzeticia decens2 sites
- Entogonites grimmeri2 sites
- Prolecanites stevanovici2 sites
- Ubites filipovici2 sites
- Ammonoidea1 site
- Arnsbergites1 site
- Aviculopecten pracaensis1 site
- Beyrichoceras jadarense1 site
- Beyrichoceratoides1 site
- Chaenocardiola1 site
- Chonetipustula turcica1 site
- Craniata1 site
- Dictyodora liebeana1 site
- Entogonites tetragonus1 site
- Euomphalus1 site
- Goniatites beyrichianus1 site
- Goniatites crenistria1 site
- Goniatites truncatus1 site
- Hibernicoceras hibernicus1 site
- Hibernicoceras mediocre1 site
- Modiolus1 site
- Nomismoceras spirorbis1 site
- Orthoceras1 site
- Osmanoceras undulatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pronorites, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- The Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous ammonoids (Cephalopoda) from Milivojevića Kamenjar, Družetić (NW Serbia) and their stratigraphy2
- Late Viséan (Mississippian) ammonoids (Cephalopoda) from the Central Moroccan Meseta1
- Geologie der Umgebung von Sarajevo1
Each of the 4 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Pronorites
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Pronorites was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Pronorites”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPronoritinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mojsisovics 1882