Emileia

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]

Emileia
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: †Ammonoidea
Order: †Ammonitida
Family: †Otoitidae
Genus: †Emileia
Buckman, 1898[2]
Species
  • Emileia brocchii
  • Emileia contrahens
  • Emileia dundriensis

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. Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Dietze, V.; et al. (2010). "Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany" (PDF). Zitteliana. 50: 71–88. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16.
  3. Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology part L (L232,L287)


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