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Emilites incertus

Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Adrianitidae

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) and Leonova and Boiko (2015).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Paralegoceras incertum Böse p. 100 figs. Pl 5, figs 1-13
1940Plummerites incertus Miller and Furnish p. 103 figs. Pl 30, figs 1-3
1940Emilites incertus Miller and Furnish p. 179
1988Emilites incertus Mapes and Boardman p. 71 figs. 2, 3, 6.4-6.9, 6.12, 6.13, 6.15
2002Emilites incertus Leonova p. S57
2015Emilites incertus Leonova and Boiko p. 587

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderGoniatitidaHyatt 1884
suborderGoniatitinaHyatt 1884
superfamilyAdrianitoidea(Schindewolf 1931)
familyAdrianitidaeSchindewolf 1931
subfamilyEmilitinae
genusEmilitesRuzhencev 1938
speciesincertus()

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
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