Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Full reference: C. A. White. 1889. On the Permian formation of Texas. The American Naturalist 23(266):109-128
Belongs to Medlicottia according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Plummer and Scott 1937, Smith 1903, White 1889 and White 1891
Sister taxa: Medlicottia arroyoensis, Medlicottia basarensis, Medlicottia busterensis, Medlicottia chozaensis, 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
Type specimen: Its type locality is Old Military Crossing, Whiskey Creek, Wichita River, which is in an Artinskian coastal siliciclastic in the Clyde Formation of Texas
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 70.0
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (2: Texas collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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