Boesites Miller and Furnish 1940 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Daraelitidae

Parent taxon: Daraelitidae according to Z. R. Zhou 2017

See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Leonova 2002 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Dalaelitinae, Daraelites, Epicanites, Epicanitinae, Praedaraelites

Subtaxa: Boesites (Eoboesites) Boesites aktubensis Boesites biconcavus Boesites eotexanus Boesites eurinus Boesites girtyi Boesites gracilis Boesites intercalaris Boesites kingi Boesites primoris Boesites serotinus Boesites texanus

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Permian of China (1 collection), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Tajikistan (2), United States (4: Texas)

• Carboniferous of Canada (4: Nunavut), Kazakhstan (3), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (1), United States (13: Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas), Uzbekistan (1)

Total: 39 collections including 41 occurrences

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