Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Parent taxon: Medlicottiinae according to T. B. Leonova 2019
See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Leonova 1989, Leonova 2002, Leonova and Shilovsky 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Zhou 2017
Sister taxa: Akmilleria, Artinskia, Eumedlicottia, Neogeoceras, Paramedlicottia, Syrdenites
Subtaxa: 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 postorbignyana Medlicottia semota Medlicottia subdorbignyi Medlicottia tenuis
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (2: Nunavut, Yukon collections), China (5), Greenland (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (10), Mexico (2), the Russian Federation (28), Tajikistan (13), United States (15: Alaska, New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 78 collections including 82 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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