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Medlicottia costellifera

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Medlicottia costellifera was named by Miller and Furnish (1940). Its type specimen is YPM 16810 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is R.E. King 7, Clay Slide, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. orbigiana

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Medlicottia costellifera Miller and Furnish
1944Medlicottia costellifera Miller p. 86 figs. Pl 24, fig 1
2002Medlicottia costellifera Leonova p. 21

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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
genusMedlicottiaWaagen 1880
speciescostellifera

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.

†Medlicottia costellifera Miller and Furnish 1940
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Diagnosis
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