Emileia

Emileia; Temporal range: Bajocian[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Subclass:	Ammonoidea
Superfamily:	Stephanoceratoidea
Family:	Otoitidae
Genus:	Emileia; Buckman, 1898[2]
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.[1]

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.[3]

Emileia is included in the family Otoitidae and superfamily Stephanoceratoidea of the Ammonitina[3]

References

Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Dietze, V.; et al. (2010). "Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany" (PDF). Zitteliana. 50: 71–88. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16.
Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology part L (L232,L287)

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[Sepkoski_Ceph-1] Sepkoski, Jack (2002). "Sepkoski's Online Genus Database". Retrieved 2014-05-28. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[Dietze2010-2] Dietze, V.; et al. (2010). "Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany" (PDF). Zitteliana. 50: 71–88. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16.

[Treatise-3] Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology part L (L232,L287)