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Cytherura

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1961Cytherura Benson et al. p. Q292
1974Cytherura Bertels
2002Cytherura Sepkoski
2012Cytherura Carignano

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
Life
superclassOligostracaZrzavý et al. 1997
classOstracoda
subclassPodocopaSars 1865
orderPodocopidaSars 1866
suborderSigilliocopinaMartens 1992
superfamilyCytheroidea(Baird 1850)
familyCytheruridaeMüller 1894
genusCytherura

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.

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Cytherura byramensis Howe and Law 1936
Cytherura coryelli Malkin 1953
Cytherura elongata Edwards 1944
Cytherura forulata Edwards 1944
Cytherura hilgardi Howe and Law 1936
Cytherura jaguelensis Bertels 1974
Cytherura sylverinica Howe and Law 1936
Cytherura wailesi Howe and Law 1936
Cytherura wardensis Howe and Brown 1935
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Environment: hypersaline, marine, brackish, freshwaterc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Diet 2: grazero
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2010-02-05 02:00:00
Modified: 2010-02-23 23:16:56
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Oxfordian to the top of the Calabrian or 161.20000 to 0.78100 Ma

Collections (23 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7France C. liesbergensis (61724)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Tunisia C. talmeyafeensis (56812)
Middle Albian109.0 - 105.3Tunisia C. talmeyafeensis (56813)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian83.5 - 66.0Argentina (Río Negro) C. sp. (231990)
Early/Lower Maastrichtian70.6 - 66.0Argentina (Neuquén) C. sp., C. jaguelensis (93947)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3Pakistan (Sindh) C. washburni (94121 94123 94126)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Alabama) C. semireticulata, C. ultra (94040)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9New Zealand (Canterbury) C. nonspinosa (161903)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4Mexico (Veracruz) C. sp. (94173)
Late/Upper Oligocene28.4 - 23.03Antigua and Barbuda C. vistabellensis (94179)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97India (Gujarat) C. sp. (93899)
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Venezuela C. sp. (93921 93923 93924 93935)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Panama (Colón) C. bananaformis (93909)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333USA (Maryland) C. forulata (191407)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) C. howei, C. reticulata, C. sp., C. aa, C. bb, C. d, C. l, C. m, C. n, C. u, C. w, C. forulata, C. wardensis, C. elongata (52582)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Panama C. sp. (91912)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (Florida) C. elongata (41501)
Calabrian1.806 - 0.781USA (Florida) C. johnsoni, C. sp., C. wardensis (41705)