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Medlicottioidea ✝
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| Rank | superfamily (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Cephalopoda : Prolecanitida : Medlicottioidea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 228 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 339 - 336 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) | W. M. Furnish, B. F. Glenister, and J. Kullmann, Z. Zhou. 2009. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part L, Revised: Mollusca 4, Volume 2: Carboniferous and Permian Ammonoidea (Goniatitida and Prolecanitida) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Darvasiceratidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Medlicottiidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 505 | 314 Ma Carboniferous | 251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | |
| Pronoritidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 362 | 339 Ma Carboniferous | 260 Ma Permian | |
| Shikhanitidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Sundaitidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1889 | Medlicottiaceae Karpinsky |
| 1981 | Medlicottiaceae Tozer |
| 1989 | Medlicottiaceae Leonova p. 79 |
| 2006 | Medlicottiaceae Korn |
| 2009 | Medlicottioidea Furnish et al. p. 193 |
| 2016 | Medlicottiaceae Korn and Sudar p. 218 |
| 2017 | Medlicottioidea Zhou p. 22 |
References
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!
