Learning Center What is a mineral?The most common minerals on earth Information for Educators Mindat Articles The Elements The Rock H. Currier Digital Library Geologic Time

Minerals by Properties Minerals by Chemistry Advanced Locality Search Random Mineral Random Locality Search by minID Localities Near Me Search Articles Search Glossary More Search Options

The Mindat Manual Add a New Photo Rate Photos Locality Edit Report Coordinate Completion Report Add Glossary Item

Mining Companies Statistics Users Mineral Museums Clubs & Organizations Mineral Shows & Events The Mindat Directory Device Settings The Mineral Quiz

Photo Search Photo Galleries Search by Color New Photos Today New Photos Yesterday Members' Photo Galleries Past Photo of the Day Gallery Photography

BETA TEST - Fossil data and pages are very much experimental and under development. Please report any problems

Medlicottiidae ✝

Photos

Photo Gallery

Description

Medlicottiidae is a family of ammonoid cephalopods belonging to the Prolecanitida, known from the Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) to the Early Triassic.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medlicottiidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4625226	https://www.gbif.org/species/4625226
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	93247	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=93247

Rank

family

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Prolecanitida : Medlicottiidae

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Cephalopoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Ammonoidea
order	Prolecanitida	Miller and Furnish 1954
superfamily	Medlicottioidea
family	Medlicottiidae	Karpinsky 1889

Scientific Name

Medlicottiidae

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Medlicottiidae	family	belongs to Cephalopoda	stated without evidence	Runnegar, 1969
Medlicottiidae	family	belongs to Medlicottiaceae	stated with evidence	Leonova, 1989

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

161

First Recorded Appearance

314 - 306 Ma
Carboniferous

Last Recorded Appearance

251 - 247 Ma
Early/Lower Triassic

Motility

fast-moving (based on Ammonoidea)

Vision

well-developed (based on Cephalopoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Ammonoidea)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Ammonoidea)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

A. P. Karpinsky. 1889. Über die Ammoneen der Artinsk-Stufe und einige mit denselben verwandte carbonische formen. Mémoires de l'Académie Impérial des Sciences de St-Pétersbourg, VIIe Series 37(2):1-104

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medlicottiidae

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Artioceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		10	290 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Episageceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		16	260 Ma Permian	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Medlicottiinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		227	304 Ma Carboniferous	254 Ma Permian
Miklukhoceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		14	296 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Propinacoceratinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		141	296 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Sicanitinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		33	299 Ma Carboniferous	269 Ma Permian
Uddenitinae ✝ subfamily	listed (PBDB)		60	314 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Akmilleria ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	296 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Artinskia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		56	304 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Artioceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Artioceratoides ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	290 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Bamyaniceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		68	290 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Daixites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		13	304 Ma Carboniferous	296 Ma Permian
Darvasiceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	290 Ma Permian	290 Ma Permian
Difuntites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Episageceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	260 Ma Permian	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Eumedlicottia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		54	279 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Latisageceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Medlicottia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		81	299 Ma Carboniferous	260 Ma Permian
Miklukhoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		14	296 Ma Permian	279 Ma Permian
Neogeoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		23	279 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Neouddenites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	290 Ma Permian	272 Ma Permian
Nodosageceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Propinacoceras ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		66	296 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Prosicanites genus	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Prouddenites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	314 Ma Carboniferous	299 Ma Carboniferous
Sicanites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		17	290 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Synartinskia ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	299 Ma Carboniferous	272 Ma Permian
Syrdenites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Uddenites ✝ genus	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		29	307 Ma Carboniferous	279 Ma Permian

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Medlicottidae	GBIF	family	Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Ammonoidea : Medlicottidae

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1889	Medlicottiidae Karpinsky
1937	Propinacoceratidae Plummer and Scott p. 89
1969	Medlicottidae Runnegar p. 821
1989	Medlicottiidae Leonova p. 84
2006	Medlicottiidae Korn
2006	Propinacoceratidae Korn
2009	Medlicottiidae Furnish et al. p. 198
2014	Medlicottiidae Leonova and Shilovsky p. 1366
2017	Medlicottidae Zhou p. 27

References

Karpinsky A. P. Über die Ammoneen der Artinsk-Stufe und einige mit denselben verwandte carbonische formen, Mémoires de l'Académie Impérial des Sciences de St-Pétersbourg, VIIe Series 37 2, 1-104

Plummer F. B., Scott G. (1937) Upper Paleozoic ammonites in Texas, The University of Texas Bulletin 3701, 1-516

Runnegar B. (1969) A Lower Triassic Ammonoid Fauna from Southeast Queensland, Journal of Paleontology 43 3, 818-828

Leonova T. B. (1989) Systematic paleontology, in Rannepermskie ammonoidei Yugo-Vostochnogo Pamira, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 235, 1-198

Korn D. (2006) Paleozoic ammonoid classification

Furnish W. M., Glenister B. F., et al (2009) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised: Mollusca 4, Volume 2: Carboniferous and Permian Ammonoidea (Goniatitida and Prolecanitida), 1-258

Leonova T. B., Shilovsky O. P. (2014) Ammonoidea, in Middle Permian cephalopods of the Volga-Ural region, Paleontological Journal 48, 1331-1414

Zhou Z. R. (2017) Permian basinal ammonoid sequence in Nanpanjiang area of South China - possible overlap between basinal Guadalupian and platform-based Lopingian, Journal of Paleontology 91 Memoir 74, 1-95

Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

Quick NavTop Fossil Distribution Subtaxa Obsolete Names Synonymy List References

Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: April 28, 2024 07:02:14

Go to top of page