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Procerites

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Procerites
Temporal range: Bajocian–Bathonian[1]
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Procerites

Procerites is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil cephalopods, the ammonites. It lived during the Jurassic Period.[1]

Distribution

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Jurassic[2] of China, France, Germany, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28.
  2. ^ "Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  3. ^ Miedema, Feiko; Bastiaans, Dylan; Scheyer, Torsten M.; Klug, Christian; Maxwell, Erin E. (2024-03-16). "A large new Middle Jurassic ichthyosaur shows the importance of body size evolution in the origin of the Ophthalmosauria". BMC Ecology and Evolution. 24 (1): 34. doi:10.1186/s12862-024-02208-3. ISSN 2730-7182. PMC 10944604. PMID 38493100.