Polycope (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Polycopidae

Parent taxon: Polycopidae according to M. B. Forel 2022

See also Chitnarin 2017, Forel 2017, Forel 2017, Forel and Grădinaru 2021, Hazel and Holden 1971, Sebe et al. 2013, Sepkoski 2002 and Yuan and Crasquin-Soleau 2007

Sister taxa: Discoidella, Nodopolycope, Permopolycope, Polycopinae, Polycopsis, Quasipolycope

Subtaxa: Polycope aghdarbandensis Polycope baudi Polycope bourquinae Polycope cerasia Polycope cincinnata Polycope edithae Polycope kilekensis Polycope pelta Polycope pumicosa Polycope ventrocostata

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Ecology: shallow infaunal suspension feeder-detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection)

• Miocene of Poland (1)

• Eocene of Tonga (1)

• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Austria (7), France (8), Germany (56), Hungary (1), Portugal (29), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (19), the United Kingdom (9)

• Triassic of Austria (1), Canada (5: Yukon), China (9), Hungary (4), Iran (1), Romania (25), Turkey (3)

• Permian of Azerbaijan (7), China (6), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Israel (2), Lithuania (11), the Russian Federation (2), Thailand (12), Turkey (1)

• Carboniferous to Permian of Turkey (1)

Total: 230 collections including 307 occurrences

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