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Boesites (Eoboesites)

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Daraelitidae

Taxonomy

Boesites (Eoboesites) was named by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1978). Its type is Boesites (Eoboesites) asianus.

It was reranked as Eoboesites by Korn (2006).

It was assigned to Boesites by Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya (1978); and to Dalaelitinae by Korn (2006).

Subtaxa

Boesites (Eoboesites) asianus (type species), Boesites (Eoboesites) scotti (syn. Paraprolecanites sandbergeri)

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1978	Boesites (Eoboesites) Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya
2006	Eoboesites Korn

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca

Rank	Name	Author
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea	()
order	Prolecanitida	Miller and Furnish 1954
superfamily	Prolecanitoidea	()
family	Daraelitidae
genus	Boesites	Miller and Furnish 1940
subgenus	Eoboesites

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.

Subg. †Boesites (Eoboesites) Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978

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†Boesites (Eoboesites) asianus Ruzhentsev and Bogoslovskaya 1978

†Boesites (Eoboesites) scotti Miller and Furnish 1940

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Invalid names: Paraprolecanites sandbergeri Plummer and Scott 1937 [replaced]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
shell height	4	6.93	4.50	11.0	6.85	2.76
shell diameter	4	18.3	10.1	28.9	20.3	8.82
shell inflation	4	6.08	4.40	7.50	6.45	1.37

Composition:

aragoniteo

Environment:

marinec

Locomotion:

fast-movingo

Life habit:

nektonico

Diet:

carnivoreo

Vision:

well-developedc

Created:

2005-10-06 14:37:20

Modified:

2005-10-06 16:37:20

Source: o = order, c = class

References: Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Yeadonian to the top of the Moscovian or 320.00000 to 307.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Yeadonian	320.0 - 318.7	Uzbekistan	Boesites asianus (38723)
Moscovian	315.2 - 307.0	USA (Arkansas)	Boesites scotti (170866)
Moscovian	315.2 - 307.0	USA (Texas)	Paraprolecanites sandbergeri (128576) Paraprolecanites sandbergeri, Boesites scotti (79328)