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Akmilleria electraensis

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Artinskia electraensis was named by Plummer and Scott (1937). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Four miles south of Electra, which is in an Artinskian marine siliciclastic in the Valera Shale Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Akmilleria electraensis by Leonova (2002) and Zhou and Liengjarern (2004).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Artinskia electraensis Plummer and Scott p. 96 figs. Pl 4, figs 18-21
2002Akmilleria electraensis Leonova
2004Akmilleria electraensis Zhou and Liengjarern p. 324 fig. 7.8,9.4

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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
specieselectraensis()

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 electraensis Plummer and Scott 1937
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Diagnosis
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