Medlicottiidae

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

Medlicottiidae

Neil Pezzoni · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MedlicottioideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ammonoidea
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Prolecanitida
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Ammonoidea
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 59 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 57 of 558 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 485 of 558 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 15 of 558 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 558 occurrencesMiddle Triassic314–312 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences307–304 Mya — about 2 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 21 occurrences302–299 Mya — about 27 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 13 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 10 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 11 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 22 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 53 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 53 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 46 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 39 occurrences280–277 Mya — about 39 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 39 occurrences275–272 Mya — about 21 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 19 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 19 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 43 occurrences265–262 Mya — about 14 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 6 occurrences260–257 Mya — about 12 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 12 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 13 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 13 occurrences250–247 Mya — about 4 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences306 Mya247 Mya314 Mya240 Mya

558 occurrences of Medlicottiidae on record, most of them in the Permian. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

558 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

113 formations

Kyzyldzhilga — 37.72°N, 74.54°EKyzyldzhilga — 37.70°N, 74.80°EKyzyldzhilga — 37.80°N, 74.00°EKyzyldzhilga — 37.62°N, 74.86°EKochusu — 37.80°N, 74.64°EKochusu — 37.95°N, 73.67°EKochusu — 37.72°N, 74.54°EKochusu — 38.05°N, 73.76°EKochusu — 37.70°N, 74.80°EKochusu — 37.81°N, 74.53°EKochusu — 37.62°N, 74.86°EKochusu — 37.80°N, 74.00°EKochusu — 37.89°N, 74.03°EChelamchin — 38.75°N, 70.88°EChelamchin — 38.53°N, 70.61°EChelamchin — 38.69°N, 70.89°EChelamchin — 39.22°N, 72.31°ESkinner Ranch — 30.21°N, 103.43°WSkinner Ranch — 30.28°N, 103.32°WSkinner Ranch — 30.37°N, 103.21°WAktasty — 50.20°N, 60.00°EAktasty — 50.37°N, 57.59°EAktasty — 50.35°N, 57.58°EAktasty — 50.30°N, 57.50°EBaigendzhin — 55.00°N, 57.25°EBaigendzhin — 54.34°N, 57.08°EBaigendzhin — 53.60°N, 56.00°EBaigendzhin — 52.55°N, 56.67°EBaigendzhin — 52.27°N, 56.69°EBaigendzhin — 51.42°N, 56.85°EBaigendzhin — 51.40°N, 57.20°EBaigendzhin — 51.75°N, 56.40°ERoad Canyon — 30.39°N, 103.14°WRoad Canyon — 30.30°N, 103.34°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.27°WRoad Canyon — 30.36°N, 103.22°WRoad Canyon — 30.24°N, 103.44°WCathedral Mountain — 30.29°N, 103.35°WCathedral Mountain — 30.28°N, 103.35°WCathedral Mountain — 30.23°N, 103.44°WCathedral Mountain — 30.36°N, 103.19°WWord — 30.40°N, 103.18°WWord — 30.35°N, 103.30°WWord — 30.23°N, 103.44°WWord — 30.37°N, 103.27°WGraham — 33.00°N, 98.68°WGraham — 32.72°N, 98.64°WGraham — 33.18°N, 98.11°WGraham — 31.80°N, 99.10°WGraham — 33.26°N, 98.11°WSenmatsu — 38.78°N, 141.41°ESenmatsu — 38.74°N, 141.42°EHamrat Duru — 23.41°N, 57.40°EGaptank — 30.17°N, 103.35°WGaptank — 30.35°N, 103.13°WGaptank — 30.50°N, 103.00°WGaptank — 30.17°N, 103.35°WGaptank — 30.36°N, 103.13°WLongyin — 26.04°N, 105.01°ELongyin — 26.00°N, 105.09°ESidazhai — 25.61°N, 106.15°ESidazhai — 25.36°N, 107.30°ELas Delicias — 26.42°N, 102.87°WPalo Quemado — 26.39°N, 102.93°WPalo Quemado — 26.31°N, 102.90°WOrol — 65.12°N, 131.23°EOrol — 64.66°N, 130.87°EOrol — 64.77°N, 131.32°EOrol — 64.79°N, 131.36°EOrol — 65.64°N, 130.23°EKhoridzhskaya — 38.69°N, 70.89°EKhoridzhskaya — 38.90°N, 71.14°EAtahoc — 9.46°S, 124.60°ELenox Hills — 30.25°N, 103.35°WLenox Hills — 30.21°N, 103.40°WOchiai — 38.98°N, 141.53°ECherry Canyon — 31.77°N, 104.76°WCherry Canyon — 31.81°N, 104.71°WYangchang — 25.67°N, 105.15°E

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The named rock units Medlicottiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 89 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 134 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Medlicottiidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Medlicottiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

1,915 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 386 sites for Medlicottiidae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

106 references

Each of the 558 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 94 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Medlicottiidae

Credit
Neil Pezzoni
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Medlicottiidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Karpinsky 1889