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Darwinula

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Darwinulidae

Taxonomy
Darwinula was named by Brady and Robertson (1885). It is extant. Its type is Polycheles stevensoni.

It was assigned to Ostracoda by Smith and Xu (1988); and to Darwinulidae by Musacchio (1973) and Rosetti and Martens (1998).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1870Polycheles Brady and Robertson
1872Darwinella Brady and Robertson
1885Darwinula Brady and Robertson
1973Darwinula Musacchio
1988Darwinula Smith and Xu p. 96
1998Darwinula Rosetti and Martens p. 57

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassOligostracaZrzavý et al. 1997
classOstracoda
subclassPodocopaSars 1865
orderPodocopidaSars 1866
suborderDarwinulocopina(Sohn 1988)
superfamilyDarwinuloideaBrady and Norman 1889
familyDarwinulidaeBrady and Norman 1889
genusDarwinulaBrady and Robertson 1885

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.

G. Darwinula Brady and Robertson 1885
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†Darwinula contracta Mandelstam 1955
†Darwinula kwangoensis Grekoff 1957
Darwinula stevensoni Brady and Robertson 1870
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Invalid names: Argilloecia aurea Brady and Robertson 1870 [synonym], Darwinula protracta Rome 1953 [synonym], Darwinula sphenoides Rome 1977 [synonym], Darwinula variabilis Tagliasacchi 1968 [synonym]
Invalid names: Darwinella Brady and Robertson 1872 [synonym], Polycheles Brady and Robertson 1870 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Environment: freshwatersuperf
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Diet 2: grazero
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2017-04-17 09:58:30
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:58:30
Source: superf = superfamily, o = order, c = class
References: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Virgilian to the top of the Holocene or 303.70000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 298.9 Ma

Collections (54 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Virgilian303.7 - 298.9USA (New Mexico) D. sp. (216991 216992 216993 216994)
Wuchiapingian - Changhsingian259.9 - 252.17China (Junggar) D. longissima (232539)
Vyatkian259.51 - 257.4Russian Federation (Vladimir) D. sima, D. accuminata, D. regia, D. abscondita (86346)
Induan252.17 - 251.2Russian Federation (Nizhegorod) D. fragilis, D. oblonga, D. triassica, D. mera, D. cara, D. indemnish (28396)
Carnian237.0 - 228.0USA (Virginia) D. sp. (39159 227825)
Carnian - Norian237.0 - 208.5Poland (Opole) D. sp. (61448)
Late/Upper Triassic237.0 - 201.4USA (New Mexico) D. sp. (80913)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (New Mexico) D. sp. (48516 57071 83737 83740)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (New Jersey) D. spp. (227832)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (Texas) D. sp. (13266)
Norian228.0 - 208.5USA (North Carolina) D. sp. (227823)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3USA (New Mexico) D. sp. (48422)
Bajocian170.3 - 168.3Madagascar D. sp. (101703)
Bathonian168.3 - 166.1United Kingdom (Scotland) D. sp. (40705 40710)
Late/Upper Bathonian167.7 - 164.7United Kingdom (England) D. incurva (38479)
Late/Upper Bathonian - Early/Lower Kimmeridgian167.7 - 150.8China (Liaoning) D. sarytirmenensis, D. impudica, D. magna, D. submagna, D. changxinensis, D. xiaofenzhangziensi (92421)
Callovian - Kimmeridgian166.1 - 152.1China (Qinghai) D. sarytirmenensis (68575)
Late/Upper Jurassic161.5 - 145.0Brazil D. oblonga, D. leguminella, D. sp. (136382)
Middle Oxfordian161.2 - 155.7Portugal (Leiria) D. sp. (69698)
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1Portugal (Leiria) D. sp. (24563)
Early/Lower Berriasian145.0 - 140.2Poland (Masovian Voivodship) D. leguminella (192534)
Middle Berriasian145.0 - 140.2Poland (Masovian Voivodship) D. leguminella (192535)
Early/Lower Cretaceous145.0 - 100.5China (Liaoning) D. sp. (36973)
Valanginian - Barremian139.8 - 125.0Spain (Biscay) D. leguminella (144740)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0Mongolia (Govi-Altai) D. contracta (136203)
Aptian125.0 - 113.0China (Liaoning) D. contracta (36972)
Albian113.0 - 100.5Argentina D. sp. (22710)
Early/Lower Coniacian89.3 - 85.8Austria (Upper Austria) D. sp. (224482)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0India (Madhya Pradesh) D. sp. (226125)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Turkey (Yalova) D. stevensoni (184470)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Croatia D. stevensoni (68219 68221 68265 68266)
Gelasian2.588 - 1.806Kenya D. stevensoni (21401 21418 21426)
Gelasian - Calabrian2.588 - 0.774Kenya D. stevensoni (21421 21462 22342)
Pleistocene - Holocene2.588 - 0.0Congo-Kinshasa D. stevensoni (22127)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Kenya D. stevensoni (21368)
Rancholabrean0.3 - 0.012Mexico (Sonora) D. sp. (20495)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Kenya (Nak-Elment.Basin) D. stevensoni (22502)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Kenya D. stevensoni (21427 21437)