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Aurila cicatricosa

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Hemicytheridae

Taxonomy

Aurila cicatricosa was named by Reuss (1850). It is extant.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

A. albicans, A. amygdala, A. bullapunctata, A. cauditoiles, A. conradi, A. convexa, A. cruciata, A. freudenthali, A. galerita, A. kollmanni, A. laevicula, A. larieyensis, A. longa, A. notata, A. opaca, A. punctata, A. socra, A. vauclusi, A. ventroinflata, Mutilus notata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1850	Aurila cicatricosa Reuss

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997

Rank	Name	Author
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)
superclass	Oligostraca	Zrzavý et al. 1997
class	Ostracoda
subclass	Podocopa	Sars 1865
order	Podocopida	Sars 1866
superfamily	Trachyleberidoidea	Liebau 2005
family	Hemicytheridae	(Puri 1953)
genus	Aurila
species	cicatricosa	Reuss 1850

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Aurila cicatricosa Reuss 1850

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitec

Environment:

hypersaline, marine, brackish, freshwaterc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

epifaunalo

Diet:

detritivoreo

Diet 2:

grazero

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2010-02-05 02:00:00

Modified:

2010-02-23 23:16:56

Source: o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: base of the Burdigalian to the top of the Tortonian or 20.45000 to 7.24600 Ma

Collections (41 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Cuba (Sancti Spiritus)	Aurila cicatricosa (31183)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	Italy (Sardinia)	Aurila cicatricosa (93936)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.63	Poland	Aurila cicatricosa (138841 138842 138843 138844 138845 138846 138847 138848 138849 138850 138851 138852 138853 138855 138857 138858 138859 138860)
Tortonian	11.63 - 7.246	Greece	Aurila cicatricosa (138312 138331 138332 138333 138334 138335 138336 138337 138425 138428 138429 138443 138575 138576 138578 138579 138580 138581 138582 138583 138584)