Polycope kilekensis Forel 2017 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Polycopidae

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 Polycope according to M. B. Forel 2017

Sister taxa: Polycope aghdarbandensis, Polycope baudi, Polycope bourquinae, Polycope cerasia, Polycope cincinnata, Polycope edithae, Polycope pelta, Polycope pumicosa, Polycope ventrocostata

Type specimen: P6M4237, a valve (right valve). Its type locality is Kilek section, Kilek-24, which is in a Julian offshore limestone in the Huglu Tuffite Formation of Turkey.

Ecology: shallow infaunal suspension feeder-detritivore

Distribution: found only at Kilek section, Kilek-24

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