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Eumedlicottia burckhardti

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Medlicottia burckhardti was named by Böse (1919). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Near junction of Road and Gilliam canyons, which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Road Canyon Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Eumedlicottia burckhardti by Plummer and Scott (1937), Nassichuk (1977), Zheng and Chen (1979) and Leonova (2002).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1919Medlicottia burckhardti Böse p. 76 figs. Pl 1, figs 46-52; pl 2, figs 1-3
1937Eumedlicottia burckhardti Plummer and Scott p. 85 figs. Pl 5, figs 10,11
1937Eumedlicottia guadalupensis Plummer and Scott p. 86 figs. Pl 40, figs 15,16
1940Medlicottia burckhardti Miller and Furnish p. 52 figs. Pl 3, figs 4-6; pl 7, fig 1; pl 8, figs 1-3; pl 9, figs 1,2,4; pl 10, fig 3
1944Medlicottia burckhardti Miller p. 84 figs. Pl 22, figs 1,2; pl 23, figs 3-9; text-fig 7A,B
1945Medlicottia burckhardti Miller p. 15
1977Eumedlicottia burckhardti Nassichuk p. 566 figs. Pl 1, fig 8; text-fig 3
1979Eumedlicottia burckhardti Zheng and Chen p. 12 figs. Pl 1, fig 22; text-fig 2
2002Eumedlicottia burckhardti 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
genusEumedlicottiaSpath 1934
speciesburckhardti()

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.

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Invalid names: Eumedlicottia guadalupensis Plummer and Scott 1937 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height722.511.232.031.711.9
shell diameter732.910.5103.630.331.7
shell inflation72.111.502.502.500.577

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 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004, Kiessling 2003

Age range: base of the Roadian to the top of the Wordian or 272.30000 to 264.28000 Ma

Collections (21 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Roadian272.3 - 268.8Mexico (Coahuila) Medlicottia burckhardti (62925 63051 63055)
Roadian272.3 - 268.8USA (Texas) Eumedlicottia burckhardti (101783) Medlicottia burckhardti (43553 113182 113197 113206 113208 113209 113238 type locality: 128591)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28Mexico (Coahuila) Medlicottia burckhardti (62916 62921)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28Canada (British Columbia) Eumedlicottia burckhardti (62319)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28USA (Texas) Eumedlicottia guadalupensis (128592 128593) Medlicottia burckhardti (105514 113188 113254)
Wordian - Capitanian266.9 - 259.51China (Sichuan) Eumedlicottia burckhardti (102909)