Procerites

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

Procerites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PerisphinctidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 2.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.6 Mya to 161.5 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 100 of 100 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 100 occurrences169–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 6 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 9 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 9 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 9 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 9 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 9 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 9 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 9 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 9 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 9 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 9 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.2 Mya165.3 Mya169.1 Mya161 Mya

100 occurrences of Procerites on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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

100 occurrences

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

13 formations

Tangiduval — 37.71°N, 66.61°ETangiduval — 37.97°N, 66.73°ETangiduval — 37.85°N, 66.69°ETangiduval — 38.00°N, 66.80°ETangiduval — 37.63°N, 66.62°ETangiduval — 38.21°N, 67.01°ETangiduval — 37.84°N, 66.62°ETangiduval — 38.01°N, 66.91°E"Berching" — 49.23°N, 11.47°EBaisun — 37.71°N, 66.61°EBaisun — 38.00°N, 66.75°EBaisun — 37.85°N, 66.69°EBaisun — 37.97°N, 66.73°EBaisun — 38.25°N, 67.05°EDalle nacrée — 47.50°N, 4.78°EChinitna — 60.17°N, 152.64°WChinitna — 59.67°N, 153.39°WCalcaires de Caen — 49.42°N, 0.40°EBaghamshah — 32.00°N, 57.00°EVarians Oolith — 48.83°N, 10.35°EOgrydag — 40.75°N, 55.50°EDhruma — 21.88°N, 45.67°EBuqu — 33.77°N, 91.33°EDalichai — 37.09°N, 56.74°ETsudakhar — 42.47°N, 46.65°E

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The named rock units Procerites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procerites and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Procerites and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

208 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 64 sites for Procerites, 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

13 references

Each of the 100 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Procerites

Credit
User:Metodicar
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPerisphinctidae through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Siemiradzki 1898)