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Medlicottia kingorum

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Medlicottia kingorum was named by Miller and Furnish (1940). Its type specimen is YPM 15952 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Near junction of Road and Gilliland canyons, Glass Mountains, which is in a Roadian carbonate limestone in the Word Formation of Texas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. orbigiana

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1940Medlicottia kingorum Miller and Furnish p. 60 figs. Pl 4, figs 5-7
2002Medlicottia kingorum 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
genusMedlicottiaWaagen 1880
specieskingorum

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 kingorum Miller and Furnish 1940
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available