Emileia
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| Emileia Temporal range: MJurassic | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
| Superfamily: | Stephanocerataceae |
| Family: | Otoitidae |
| Genus: | Emileia Buckman, 1898[1] |
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Emileia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil cephalopods, the ammonites, that lived during the early part of the middle Jurassic.[2]
Emileiais a large form with fine ribbing that includes may secondaries. It begins as a barrel shaped cadicone, with an eccentric, more or less smooth body chamber.[3]
Emileia is included in the family Otoitidae and superfamily Stephanocerataceae of the Ammonitina[3]
References
- ↑ Dietze, V.; et al (2010). "Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany". Zitteliana 50: 71–88.
- ↑ Sepkoski, Jack, 2002.A compendium of fossil marine animal genera (Cephalopoda entry). Bulletins of American Paleontology vol 364.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology part L (L232,L287)
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