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Akmilleria whortani

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Artinskia whortani was named by Miller (1936). Its type specimen is KU 196 and is a cast. Its type locality is Grenola, Highway 160 E of Cowley County Line, which is in an Asselian coastal shale in the Florena Formation of Kansas.

It was recombined as Akmilleria whortani by Leonova (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Artinskia whortani Miller p. 493 figs. Pl 73, figs 1,2; text-fig 4
2002Akmilleria whortani Leonova

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classCephalopodaCuvier 1797
RankNameAuthor
subclassAmmonoidea()
orderProlecanitidaMiller and Furnish 1954
superfamilyMedlicottioidea(Karpinsky 1889)
familyMedlicottiidae
subfamilyMedlicottiinae
genusAkmilleriaRuzhencev 1940
specieswhortani()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Akmilleria whortani Miller 1936
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmean
shell height134.0
shell diameter155.0
shell inflation10.001

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-10-06 14:37:20
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:37:20
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: Asselian or 298.90000 to 293.52000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian298.9 - 293.52USA (Kansas) Artinskia whortani (type locality: 113124)