Medlicottia costellifera

Medlicottia costellifera

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MedlicottiaPBDB
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 most 8.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 5 of 5 occurrencesPermian283–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283.8 Mya273.9 Mya

5 occurrences of Medlicottia costellifera 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

5 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

2 formations

Cathedral Mountain — 30.27°N, 103.33°WLas Sardinas — 26.30°N, 102.88°W

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The named rock units Medlicottia costellifera has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Medlicottia costellifera and its relatives

Permian

Where Medlicottia costellifera and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Medlicottia costellifera, and this reads all 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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. 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 Medlicottia costellifera

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Medlicottia costellifera 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itMedlicottia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Miller and Furnish 1940