Emileia
{{Short description|Genus of molluscs (fossil)}}
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|fossil_range = {{fossil range|Bajocian|ref=}}
|taxon = Emileia
|authority = Buckman, 1898{{cite journal |last1=Dietze |first1=V. |year=2010 |title=Rare Middle Jurassic ammonites of the families Erycitidae, Otoitidae and Stephanoceratidae from southern Germany |journal=Zitteliana |volume=50 |pages=71–88 |url=http://rogov.zwz.ru/Dietze%20et%20al,2010.pdf |display-authors=etal |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716054918/http://rogov.zwz.ru/Dietze%20et%20al%2C2010.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-16 }}
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision =
- Emileia brocchii
- Emileia contrahens
- Emileia 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.{{cite journal
| last = Sepkoski| first = Jack| title= Sepkoski's Online Genus Database| year = 2002| url = http://strata.geology.wisc.edu/jack/showgenera.php?taxon=231&rank=class| access-date = 2014-05-28 }}
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.Mesozoic Ammonoidea, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology part L (L232,L287)
Emileia is included in the family Otoitidae and superfamily Stephanoceratoidea of the Ammonitina
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