Sicanites Gemmellaro 1887 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Synonym: Aktubinskia Ruzhencev 1940

Full reference: G. G. Gemmellaro. 1887. La Fauna dei Calcari con Fusulina della Valle del Fiume Sosio nella Provincia di Palermo, Fasc. 1 - Ammonoidea. Giornale di Scienze Naturali e Economiche 19:1-106

Parent taxon: Sicanitinae according to T. B. Leonova 2019

See also Furnish et al. 2009, Korn 2006, Leonova 1989, Leonova 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Zhou 2017

Sister taxa: Parasicanites, Prosicanites, Synartinskia, Vanartinskia

Subtaxa: Sicanites bactrianus Sicanites croaticus Sicanites evolutus Sicanites notabilis Sicanites schopeni

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Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Permian of China (3 collections), Indonesia (1), Iraq (1), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (1), Oman (2), Tajikistan (5), Thailand (1)

Total: 16 collections including 17 occurrences

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