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Emilites

Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Adrianitidae

Taxonomy
Emilites was named by Ruzhencev (1938) [Sepkoski's age data: C Step-l P Asse-l]. It is not extant. Its type is Paralegoceras incertum.

It was assigned to Goniatitida by Sepkoski (2002); to Emilitinae by Leonova and Bogoslovskaya (1990), Leonova (2002), Korn (2006), Leonova and Boiko (2015); and to Adrianitinae by Furnish et al. (2009), Zhou (2017).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1938Emilites Ruzhencev
1940Plummerites Miller and Furnish p. 103
1990Emilites Leonova and Bogoslovskaya p. 88
2002Emilites Leonova
2002Emilites Sepkoski
2006Emilites Korn
2009Emilites Furnish et al. p. 126
2015Emilites Leonova and Boiko p. 587
2017Emilites Zhou p. 52

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassColeoideaBather 1888
orderAmmonoida(Haeckel 1866)
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyAdrianitoidea(Schindewolf 1931)
familyAdrianitidaeSchindewolf 1931
subfamilyEmilitinae
genusEmilitesRuzhencev 1938

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Emilites Ruzhencev 1938
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†Emilites bennisoni Mapes and Boardman 1988
†Emilites brownwoodi Mapes and Boardman 1988
†Emilites globosus Zhou 2017
†Emilites incertus Böse 1919
†Emilites plummeri Ruzhentsev 1941
†Emilites prosperus Ruzhentsev 1978
Invalid names: Plummerites Miller and Furnish 1940 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height217.334.0017.57.153.20
shell diameter2114.47.8035.013.55.86
shell inflation210.1620.0014.100.9001.23

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-01-28 02:36:55
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:36:08
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Moscovian to the top of the Asselian or 315.20000 to 293.52000 Ma

Collections (19 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0USA (Oklahoma) E. sp. (170910)
Kasimovian307.0 - 303.7USA (Texas) E. brownwoodi (170908)
Kasimovian307.0 - 303.7USA (Oklahoma) E. bennisoni (170909)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Kazakhstan E. plummeri (172281)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Canada (Nunavut) E. sp. (117189)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9USA (Texas) E. incertum (43483) E. incertus (170912) Paralegoceras incertum (128585) Plummerites incertus (170911)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Russian Federation E. plummeri (172272 172369)
Virgilian303.7 - 298.9USA (Kansas) E. incertus (44351)
Virgilian303.7 - 298.9USA (Texas) E. brownwoodi (93707)
Asselian298.9 - 293.52China (Guangxi) E. globosus (185583 185585) E. prosperus (95829)
Asselian298.9 - 293.52Japan E. prosperus (116014)
Asselian298.9 - 293.52Tajikistan E. prosperus (102491 102492)