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Bilinguites eliasi

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Reticuloceratidae

Taxonomy
Bilinguites eliasi was named by Manger and Saunders (1980). Its type specimen is UA 77-218-41, a shell, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Caddo Village, Locality 297, which is in a Morrowan shallow subtidal grainstone in the Golf Course Formation of Oklahoma.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1980Bilinguites eliasi Manger and Saunders p. 23 figs. Pl 2, figs 13-17; text-figs 8,9

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyGastrioceratoidea()
familyReticuloceratidaeLibrovitch 1957
subfamilyReticuloceratinaeLibrovich 1957
genusBilinguitesLibrovitch 1946
specieseliasi

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.

Bilinguites eliasi Manger and Saunders 1980
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height97.112.4023.06.506.07
shell diameter919.38.9058.016.415.3
shell inflation96.184.1017.05.504.50

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: Morrowan or 323.40000 to 318.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Morrowan323.4 - 318.6USA (Oklahoma) Bilinguites eliasi (type locality: 43136)