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Eumedlicottia whitneyi
Taxonomy
Medlicottia whitneyi was named by Böse (1919). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Clay Slide, WNW of Iron Mountain, Glass Mountains, which is in a Kungurian marine horizon in the Cathedral Mountain Formation of Texas.
It was recombined as Eumedlicottia whitneyi by Plummer and Scott (1937) and Leonova (2002).
It was recombined as Eumedlicottia whitneyi by Plummer and Scott (1937) and Leonova (2002).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1919 | Medlicottia whitneyi Böse p. 72 figs. Pl 1, figs 41-45a; text-fig |
1937 | Eumedlicottia crotonensis Plummer and Scott p. 82 figs. Pl 6, figs 7-11 |
1937 | Eumedlicottia whitneyi Plummer and Scott p. 84 figs. Pl 5, figs 12,13 |
1940 | Medlicottia whitneyi Miller and Furnish p. 55 figs. Pl 6, fig 6; pl 8, figs 5,6; pl 10, figs 4,5 |
1942 | Medlicottia whitneyi Clifton p. 697 figs. Pl 103, fig 8 |
1944 | Medlicottia whitneyi Miller p. 85 figs. Pl 22, figs 3,4 |
1945 | Medlicottia whitneyi Miller p. 15 |
2002 | Eumedlicottia whitneyi Leonova p. 21 |
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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.
†Eumedlicottia whitneyi Böse 1919
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Invalid names: Eumedlicottia crotonensis Plummer and Scott 1937 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
part | N | mean | minimum | maximum | median | s.d. | |
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shell height | 2 | 35.9 | 25.5 | 50.5 | 38.0 | 17.7 | |
shell diameter | 2 | 57.8 | 41.8 | 80.0 | 60.9 | 27.0 | |
shell inflation | 2 | 1.61 | 1.30 | 2.00 | 1.65 | 0.495 |
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References: Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2004, Aberhan et al. 2004 |
Collections (13 total)
Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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Kungurian | Mexico (Coahuila) | Medlicottia whitneyi (63101) | |
Kungurian | USA (Texas) | Eumedlicottia crotonensis (128589) Eumedlicottia whitneyi (105574 105926 106114) Medlicottia whitneyi (90740 90745 113203 113210 type locality: 128590) | |
Kungurian | Colombia | Medlicottia whitneyi (119258) | |
Roadian | USA (Texas) | Eumedlicottia whitneyi (106117) Medlicottia whitneyi (43512) |