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Amicytheridea

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae

Taxonomy
Amicytheridea was named as a genus.

It was reranked as Fastigatocythere (Amicytheridea) by Mette (2004).

It was assigned to Ostracoda by Kiessling (2003); to Fastigatocythere by Mette (2004); and to Schulerideidae by Brandão et al. (2025).

Species lacking formal opinion data
A. dhrumaensis, A. oblonga

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2003Amicytheridea Kiessling
2004Fastigatocythere (Amicytheridea) Mette
2025Amicytheridea Brandão et al. p. 770969

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassOligostracaZrzavý et al. 1997
classOstracoda
subclassPodocopaSars 1865
orderPodocopidaSars 1866
suborderSigilliocopinaMartens 1992
superfamilyCytheroidea(Baird 1850)
familyCytherideidaeSars 1925
subfamilySchulerideinaeMandelstam 1959
genusAmicytheridea

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitec
Environment: marine, brackish, freshwaterf
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Diet 2: grazero
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2017-04-17 10:09:10
Modified: 2017-04-17 10:09:30
Source: f = family, o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: base of the Bajocian to the top of the Early/Lower Callovian or 170.90000 to 161.50000 Ma

Collections (18 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Bajocian170.9 - 168.2Saudi Arabia A. dhrumaensis (45266 45267 45268) A. dierallaensis (45265 48040 48041) A. sp. (48035)
Bathonian168.2 - 165.3Saudi Arabia A. dierallaensis (48309) A. sp. (48142) A. sp., A. dierallaensis, A. triangulata (48480)
Callovian165.3 - 161.5Saudi Arabia A. dierallaensis (48520) A. dierallaensis, A. sp. (48501 48519) Amicytheridea indet. (47851) A. oblonga (48518) A. triangulata (48560)
Early/Lower Callovian165.3 - 161.5Madagascar Fastigatocythere globosa, Fastigatocythere triangulata (101718)
Early/Lower Callovian - Middle Callovian165.3 - 161.5Madagascar Fastigatocythere triangulata (101719)