Branchiopoda - Cladocera - Daphniidae

Kotov, 2007 determined that Smirnov's Permian Archedaphnia material was indeterminate non-cladoceran.

Kotov, A. A. (2007). Jurassic Cladocera (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) with a description of an extinct Mesozoic order. Journal of Natural History 41, 1337.

Full reference: N. N. Smirnov . 1970. Cladocera (Crustacea) from the Permian of eastern Kazakhstan. Paleontological Journal 1970(3):376-382

Parent taxon: Daphniidae according to N. N. Smirnov 1970

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Archedaphnia borutkyi Archedaphnia kazakhstanica Archedaphnia novojilovi Archedaphnia strelkovi Archedaphnia testacea

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Type: Archedaphnia kazakhstanica

Ecology: slow-moving nektobenthic suspension feeder-detritivore

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Archedaphnia in the database

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