Medlicottia arroyoensis Plummer and Scott 1937 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Full reference: F. B. Plummer and G. Scott. 1937. Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin 3701:1-516

Belongs to Medlicottia according to T. B. Leonova 2002

See also Plummer and Scott 1937

Sister taxa: 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

Type specimen: Its type locality is B.E.G220-T-1 (Q-4), 1 mile ENE of Abilene Railway station, which is in a Kungurian marine siliciclastic in the Clear Fork Formation of Texas.

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution: found only at B.E.G. 220-T-1 (Q-4), 1 mile ENE of Abilene Railway station

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