Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Full reference: A. K. Miller and W. M. Furnish. 1940. Permian ammonoids of the Guadalupe Mountain region and adjacent area. Geological Society of America Special Paper 26:1-242
Belongs to Medlicottia according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Miller and Furnish 1940
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 magnotuberculata, Medlicottia media, Medlicottia milleri, Medlicottia orbignyana, Medlicottia orientalis, Medlicottia postorbignyana, Medlicottia semota, Medlicottia subdorbignyi, Medlicottia tenuis
Type specimen: YPM 15952. Its type locality is Near junction of Road and Gilliland canyons, Glass Mountains, which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Word Formation of Texas.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 87.1
Distribution: found only at Near junction of Road and Gilliland canyons, Glass Mountains
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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