Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Alternative combinations: Goniatites orbignyanus, Medlicottia orbignyi
Full reference: E. de Verneuil. 1845. Paléontologie. Géologie de la Russie d'Europe et des Montagne de l'Oural, Paléontologie 2(3):1-512
Belongs to Medlicottia according to Z. R. Zhou 2017
See also de Verneuil 1845, Karpinsky 1889, Leonova 2002, Nassichuk 1970, Ruzhentsev 1956, Tchernow 1907, Tumanskaya 1939 and Zhou and Yang 2005
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 orientalis, Medlicottia postorbignyana, Medlicottia semota, Medlicottia subdorbignyi, Medlicottia tenuis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Kachkabache Mountain, near Artinsk, which is in an Artinskian marine sandstone in the Russian Federation
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 44.0
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (1: Nunavut collection), China (2), Indonesia (1), Kazakhstan (4), the Russian Federation (20), Tajikistan (1)
Total: 29 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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