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Medlicottia chozaensis

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Medlicottia chozaensis was named by Plummer and Scott (1937). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Mule Creek, S of Colorado River, Runnels County, which is in a Kungurian marine siliciclastic in the Choza Formation of Texas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
M. orbigiana

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1937Medlicottia chozaensis Plummer and Scott p. 77 figs. Pl 6, figs 4-6
2002Medlicottia chozaensis 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
specieschozaensis

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 chozaensis Plummer and Scott 1937
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Diagnosis
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