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
Parent taxon: Amphissitidae according to R. Hoare and R. Mapes 2000
See also Girty 1910 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amphissites, Doricranos, Kegelites, Kullmannissites, Neoamphissites, Neochilina, Parahollinella, Permokegelites, Polytylites, Pseudokegelites
Subtaxa: Glyptopleura angulata Glyptopleura coryelli Glyptopleura inopinata Glyptopleura mugiensis Glyptopleura triserta
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of United States (1: Colorado collection)
• Permian of Guatemala (2), Japan (1), Lithuania (1), United States (1: Kansas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (3: Alberta), United States (8: Arkansas, California, Illinois, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Wyoming)
Total: 17 collections including 21 occurrences
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