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Emileia

Emileia
Temporal range: Bajocian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Subclass: Ammonoidea
Superfamily: Stephanocerataceae
Family: Otoitidae
Genus: Emileia
Buckman, 1898
Species
  • E. brocchii
  • E. contrahens
  • E. dundriensis

Emileia is an extinct genus from a well-known class of fossil cephalopods, the ammonites, that lived during the early part of the Bajocian.

Emileiais a large form with fine ribbing that includes may secondaries. It begins as a barrel shaped cadicone, with an eccentric, more or less smooth body chamber.

Emileia is included in the family Otoitidae and superfamily Stephanocerataceae of the Ammonitina


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