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Eumedlicottia primas

Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Taxonomy
Goniatites primas was named by Waagen (1872). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Jabi, "Cephalopod Bed", Salt Range, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine limestone in the Chhidru Formation of Pakistan.

It was recombined as Sageceras primas by Waagen (1879); it was recombined as Eumedlicottia primas by Reed (1944), Ehiro and Araki (1997) and Leonova (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1872Goniatites primas Waagen p. 356 figs. Pl 1, fig 4
1879Sageceras primas Waagen p. 39 figs. Pl 2, fig 7
1944Eumedlicottia primas Reed p. 369
1997Eumedlicottia primas Ehiro and Araki p. 64 figs. 4e,f; 9.5,9.6
2002Eumedlicottia primas Leonova p. S21

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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
genusEumedlicottiaSpath 1934
speciesprimas()

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.

†Eumedlicottia primas Waagen 1872
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
shell height259.0--59.0-
shell diameter286.165.0114.089.534.6
shell inflation210.0--10.0-

Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marinec
Locomotion: fast-movingo
Life habit: nektonico
Diet: carnivoreo
Vision: well-developedc
Created: 2005-10-06 14:37:20
Modified: 2005-10-06 16:37:20
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Kiessling 2003, Aberhan et al. 2004

Age range: base of the Wuchiapingian to the top of the Capitanian or 259.90000 to 259.51000 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Capitanian264.28 - 259.51Japan Eumedlicottia primas (107590 107592)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17Pakistan Eumedlicottia primas (126736) Goniatites primas (type locality: 90253)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17Russian Federation Eumedlicottia primas (212285 212286)