Biology:Emileia
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Short description: Genus of molluscs (fossil)
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Subclass: | †Ammonoidea |
| Order: | †Ammonitida |
| Family: | †Otoitidae |
| Genus: | †Emileia Buckman, 1898[2] |
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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 Bajocian.[1]
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 Stephanoceratoidea of the Ammonitina[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sepkoski, Jack (2002). Sepkoski's Online Genus Database. http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
- ↑ Dietze, V. (2010). "Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany". Zitteliana 50: 71–88. http://rogov.zwz.ru/Dietze%20et%20al,2010.pdf.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology part L (L232,L287)
Wikidata ☰ Q5371612 entry
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