Ostracoda - Podocopida - Acratiidae

Full reference: M. B. Forel. 2017. Taxonomic names, in Discovery of a long-term refuge for ostracods (Crustacea) after the end-Permian extinction: a unique Carnian (Late Triassic) fauna from the Mersin Mélange, southern Turkey. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17:9-58

Belongs to Acratia according to M. B. Forel 2017

Sister taxa: Acratia caeracella, Acratia candyae, Acratia changxingensis, Acratia chongpani, Acratia filippovskaensis, Acratia goemoeryi, Acratia guangyuanensis, Acratia hamadai, Acratia hungarica, Acratia jeanvannieri, Acratia lucea, Acratia mongkoli, Acratia nagyvisnyoensis, Acratia obesa, Acratia okumurai, Acratia olivifera, Acratia permiana, Acratia pervagata, Acratia posteroinclinata, Acratia posthungarica, Acratia pulchra, Acratia qinglongensis, Acratia recurvata, Acratia schreteri, Acratia serbianella, Acratia simplex, Acratia siratchoica, Acratia subfusiformis, Acratia subgusevae, Acratia subularis, Acratia symmetrica, Acratia triassica, Acratia typica, Acratia visnyoensis, Acratia zhongyingensis

Type specimen: P6M4024, a valve (left valve). Its type locality is Kilek section, Kilek-24, which is in a Julian offshore limestone in the Huglu Tuffite Formation of Turkey.

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer

Distribution: found only at Kilek section, Kilek-24

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