Amphissites rugosus Girty 1910 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville shale of Arkansas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20(3):189-238

Belongs to Amphissites according to I.G. Sohn 1969

See also Girty 1910 and Harlton 1933

Sister taxa: Amphissites (Amphikegelites), Amphissites (Amphissites), Amphissites bushi, Amphissites carinodus, Amphissites centronotus, Amphissites dattonensis, Amphissites gifuensis, Amphissites knighti, Amphissites marginiferus, Amphissites miseri, Amphissites neocentronotus, Amphissites nodosus, Amphissites sinensis, Amphissites sosioensis, Amphissites subcentronotus, Amphissites wapanuckensis

Type specimen: USNM 118485, a carapace

Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of Ukraine (3 collections), United States (7: Arkansas, Oklahoma)

Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence

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