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Akmilleria adkinsi

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Artinskia adkinsi was named by Plummer and Scott (1937). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is B.E.G. 42-T-18, Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe Railway, Coleman, which is in an Artinskian coastal shale in the Admiral Formation of Texas.

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

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Artinskia adkinsi Plummer and Scott p. 93 figs. Pl 4, figs 6-17
1947Artinskia adkinsi Miller and Youngquist p. 7 figs. Pl 3, figs 6,7
2002Akmilleria adkinsi 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
genusAkmilleriaRuzhencev 1940
speciesadkinsi()

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 adkinsi Plummer and Scott 1937
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available