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Emilites incertus
Taxonomy
Paralegoceras incertum was named by Böse (1919). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wolf Camp, Glass Mountains, which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Gaptank Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Emilites, Plummerites.
It was recombined as Plummerites incertus by Miller and Furnish (1940); it was recombined as Emilites incertus by Miller and Furnish (1940), Mapes and Boardman (1988), Leonova (2002), Leonova and Boiko (2015).
It was recombined as Plummerites incertus by Miller and Furnish (1940); it was recombined as Emilites incertus by Miller and Furnish (1940), Mapes and Boardman (1988), Leonova (2002), Leonova and Boiko (2015).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1919 | Paralegoceras incertum Böse p. 100 figs. Pl 5, figs 1-13 |
| 1940 | Plummerites incertus Miller and Furnish p. 103 figs. Pl 30, figs 1-3 |
| 1940 | Emilites incertus Miller and Furnish p. 179 |
| 1988 | Emilites incertus Mapes and Boardman p. 71 figs. 2, 3, 6.4-6.9, 6.12, 6.13, 6.15 |
| 2002 | Emilites incertus Leonova p. S57 |
| 2015 | Emilites incertus Leonova and Boiko p. 587 |
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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.
†Emilites incertus Böse 1919
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
| part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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| shell height | 4 | 5.23 | 4.20 | 5.70 | 5.60 | 0.718 | |
| shell diameter | 4 | 10.9 | 8.20 | 13.2 | 11.4 | 2.21 | |
| shell inflation | 4 | 0.256 | 0.001 | 3.00 | 1.30 | 1.30 |
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| References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003 | |||||
Age range: Gzhelian or 303.70000 to 298.90000 Ma
Collections (4 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gzhelian | USA (Texas) | Emilites incertus (170912) Paralegoceras incertum (type locality: 128585) Plummerites incertus (170911) | |
| Virgilian | USA (Kansas) | Emilites incertus (44351) |