Medlicottia postorbignyana Bogoslovskaya 1997 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Full reference: M. F. Bogoslovskaya. 1997. Permian Ammonoids from the Pai-Khoy Range and Vaigach Island. Paleontological Journal 31(6):588-594

Belongs to Medlicottia according to T. B. Leonova and O. P. Shilovsky 2014

See also Bogoslovskaya 1997 and Leonova 2002

Sister taxa: Medlicottia arroyoensis, Medlicottia basarensis, Medlicottia busterensis, Medlicottia chozaensis, Medlicottia copei, Medlicottia costellifera, Medlicottia gansuensis, Medlicottia illius, Medlicottia intermedia, Medlicottia jakovlevi, Medlicottia karpinskyana, Medlicottia kingorum, Medlicottia magnotuberculata, Medlicottia media, Medlicottia milleri, Medlicottia orbignyana, Medlicottia orientalis, Medlicottia semota, Medlicottia subdorbignyi, Medlicottia tenuis

Type specimen: PIN 4671/1. Its type locality is Liur-yaga Creek, Talata Svita, Pai-Khoy Range, which is in a Kungurian marine siliciclastic in the Talata Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 28.0

Distribution:

• Permian of the Russian Federation (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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