Cephalopoda - Prolecanitida - Medlicottiidae

Alternative combinations: Goniatites primas, Sageceras primas

Full reference: W. Waagen. 1872. On the occurrence of Ammonites, associated with Ceratites, and Goniatites in the Carboniferous deposits of the Salt Range. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India 9(4):351-358

Belongs to Eumedlicottia according to T.B. Leonova 2002

Sister taxa: Eumedlicottia bifrons, Eumedlicottia burckhardti, Eumedlicottia verneuili, Eumedlicottia whitneyi

Type specimen: Its type locality is Jabi, "Cephalopod Bed", Salt Range, which is in a Wuchiapingian marine limestone in the Chhidru Formation of Pakistan

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Average measurements (in mm): shell width 23.0, shell diameter 86.1