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Boesites

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Daraelitidae

Taxonomy
Boesites was named by Miller and Furnish (1940) [Sepkoski's age data: C Bash-u P Sakm Sepkoski's reference number: 304,1251]. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Prolecanitida by Sepkoski (2002); to Dalaelitinae by Korn (2006); and to Daraelitidae by Leonova (2002), Furnish et al. (2009) and Zhou (2017).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Boesites Miller and Furnish
2002Boesites Leonova
2002Boesites Sepkoski
2006Boesites Korn
2009Boesites Furnish et al. p. 190
2017Boesites Zhou p. 21

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
RankNameAuthor
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderProlecanitidaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyProlecanitoidea()
familyDaraelitidae
genusBoesitesMiller and Furnish 1940

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. †Boesites Miller and Furnish 1940
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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]
Boesites aktubensis Bogoslovskaya and Popov 1986
Boesites biconcavus Ehiro and Ozawa 2020
Boesites eotexanus Wagner-Gentis 1971
Boesites eurinus Leonova 1992
Boesites girtyi Plummer and Scott 1937
Boesites gracilis Nassichuk 1975
Boesites intercalaris Ruzhentsev 1978
Boesites kingi Plummer and Scott 1937
Boesites primoris Ruzhentsev 1950
Boesites serotinus Ruzhentsev 1951
Boesites texanus Böse 1919
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height247.083.8016.06.703.33
shell diameter2416.98.5037.916.47.77
shell inflation244.942.3010.64.702.37

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

Age range: base of the Yeadonian to the top of the Artinskian or 320.00000 to 279.30000 Ma

Collections (39 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Yeadonian320.0 - 318.7Uzbekistan B. asianus (38723)
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0USA (Texas) B. sp., Paraprolecanites sandbergeri, B. scotti (79328) Paraprolecanites sandbergeri (128576)
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0USA (Oklahoma) Pronorites sp. (90784)
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0Canada (Nunavut) B. sp. (62696 170709 170724)
Moscovian315.2 - 307.0USA (Arkansas) B. scotti (170866)
Myachkovian309.0 - 307.0Spain (Palencia) B. eotexanus (176368)
Kasimovian307.0 - 303.7USA (Oklahoma) B. girtyi (170916)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9USA (Texas) B. sp. (105974) B. texanus (43455 43483 43485) Daraelites texanus (128581 128585 128622)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Canada (Nunavut) B. sp. (117189)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Kazakhstan B. primoris (81345 81348) B. sp. (81350)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Russian Federation (Bashkortostan) B. primoris (172290)
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9Russian Federation B. primoris (172256 172260 172266 172268 172269 172270 172272)
Virgilian303.7 - 298.9USA (Kansas) B. texanus (44351)
Asselian298.9 - 295.5Tajikistan B. intercalaris (102491)
Asselian298.9 - 295.5USA (Texas) B. sp. (43482)
Asselian298.9 - 295.5China (Guangxi) B. intercalaris (95829)
Asselian298.9 - 295.5Kazakhstan B. aktubensis (81361)
Asselian298.9 - 295.5Japan B. biconcavus (214599)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1USA (Texas) Daraelites kingi (128621)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1Tajikistan B. eurinus (130221)
Artinskian290.1 - 279.3USA (Texas) Daraelites kingi (43568 105720)