Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
Full reference: T. R. Jones. 1859. [With notes on the species, in] On Permian Entomostraca from the shell-limestone of Durham. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club 4:133-137
Parent taxon: Kirkbyidae according to M. B. Forel 2017
See also Benson et al. 1961, Crasquin 2008, Harlton 1933, Sepkoski 2002 and Sohn 1954
Sister taxa: Aurikirkbya, Boreokirkbya, Coronakirkbya, Ectodemites, Kirkbyinae, Nodokirkbya, Parvikirkbya, Reviya, Scutikirkbya, Semipetasus, Shleesha, Tubulikirkbya, Villozona
Subtaxa: Kirkbya atolla Kirkbya bellula Kirkbya bendensis Kirkbya buekkensis Kirkbya canyonformis Kirkbya centrotumida Kirkbya clarocarinata Kirkbya firma Kirkbya fossilcliffi Kirkbya knuepferi Kirkbya lindahli Kirkbya magniforma Kirkbya mingenewensis Kirkbya moorei Kirkbya multicresta Kirkbya pergrandis Kirkbya permiana Kirkbya punctata Kirkbya rara Kirkbya reflexa Kirkbya sinensis Kirkbya subnipponica Kirkbya subquadriforma Kirkbya unnoda Kirkbya valida
Type: Dithyrocaris permiana
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Turkey (1 collection)
• Permian of Australia (34), Canada (3: British Columbia), China (30), Hungary (2), Iran (7), Italy (5), Japan (1), Lithuania (9), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (2: Missouri)
• Westphalian of Spain (1)
• Pennsylvanian of United States (1: Texas)
• Chesterian of United States (1: Arkansas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta), China (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (17: Arkansas, California, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Devonian of Belgium (1), Germany (9)
Total: 140 collections including 179 occurrences
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