Boesites texanus Böse 1919

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Daraelitidae

Alternative combination: Daraelites texanus

Full reference: E. Böse. 1919. The Permo-Carboniferous ammonoids of the Glass Mountains, west Texas, and their stratigraphic significance. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Bulletin 1762:1-241

Belongs to Boesites according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Böse 1919, Nassichuk 1975 and Plummer and Scott 1937

Sister taxa: Boesites (Eoboesites), Boesites aktubensis, Boesites biconcavus, Boesites eotexanus, Boesites eurinus, Boesites girtyi, Boesites gracilis, Boesites intercalaris, Boesites kingi, Boesites primoris, Boesites serotinus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Wolf Camp, Glass Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Gaptank Formation of Texas

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 12.7

Distribution:

• Virgilian of United States (1: Kansas collection)

• Carboniferous of United States (6: Texas)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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