Emileia Temporal range: Bajocian |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Subclass: | Ammonoidea |
Superfamily: | Stephanocerataceae |
Family: | Otoitidae |
Genus: |
Emileia Buckman, 1898 |
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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