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Basslerella crassa

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae

Taxonomy
Basslerella crassa was named by Kellett (1935). Its type specimen is USNM 90123 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Cottonwood River Bridge, shale on top of buff limestone, Elmdale, which is in a Gzhelian shallow subtidal shale in the Elmdale Formation of Kansas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
B. angulata, B. quasicrassa, B. regularis, B. saumica, B. suavis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1935Basslerella crassa Kellett p. 156 figs. Pl 17, figs 1a-c
1986Basslerella crassa Chen and Bao p. 122 figs. Pl 1, fig 33

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—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
genusBasslerella
speciescrassa

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.

†Basslerella crassa Kellett 1935
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
carapace height20.3820.3250.4500.3880.088
valve height10.460----

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: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range: base of the Gzhelian to the top of the Kungurian or 303.70000 to 274.40000 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian303.7 - 298.9USA (Kansas) Basslerella crassa (type locality: 95377 133158)
Artinskian290.1 - 283.3China (Fujian) Basslerella crassa (95702)
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4China (Jiangsu) Basslerella crassa (142164 142167 142171 142188 142189)
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4China (Fujian) Basslerella crassa (95705 95706 95708)
Kungurian283.3 - 274.4Guatemala Basslerella crassa (155577)