Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae
Full reference: X. L. Liang. 1981. Early Permian cephalopods from northwestern Gansu and western Nei Mongol. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 20:485-500
Belongs to Medlicottia according to T. B. Leonova 2002
See also Liang 1981
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 orbignyana, Medlicottia postorbignyana, Medlicottia semota, Medlicottia subdorbignyi, Medlicottia tenuis
Type specimen: NIGP 62041. Its type locality is F7, bed 12, Shuangputang, Jinta County, which is in a Roadian marine shale in the Shuangputang Formation of China.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Average measurements (in mm): shell diameter 55.0
Distribution: found only at F7, bed 12, Shuangputang, Jinta County
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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