Roundyella simplex Girty 1910 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Leperditellocopida - Scrobiculidae

Alternative combinations: Amphissites simplex, Kirkbya simplex

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 Roundyella according to I.G. Sohn 1969

See also Girty 1910

Sister taxa: Roundyella bellatula, Roundyella dorsopapillosa, Roundyella kroemmelbeini, Roundyella lebaensis, Roundyella ludbrookae, Roundyella neopapillosa, Roundyella ovatiformis, Roundyella papilliformis, Roundyella simplicissima

Type specimen: USNM 119854, a carapace (valve)

Ecology: epifaunal

Distribution: found only at USNM 5553. Webber Mountain (Carboniferous of Arkansas)

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