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Bairdia intermedia

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae

Taxonomy

Bairdia intermedia was named by Belousova (1965). Its type specimen is MGU 30/14 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Dorasham 2, Ali Bashi Formation, which is in a Changhsingian marine horizon in the Ali Bashi Formation of Azerbaijan.

It was recombined as Cryptobairdia intermedia by Kozur (1985).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

B. africana, B. altifrons, B. anomala, B. antamputata, B. auricula, B. austriaca, B. billjohnsoni, B. birinae, B. bradfieldi, B. cassiana, B. ciscoensis, B. colonensis, B. condylus, B. confragosaeformis, B. crebra, B. croneisi, B. croskeina, B. cultrijugati, B. dissortis, B. dolicha, B. egorovi, B. eleziana, B. exoura, B. fabaeformis, B. fusca, B. gibbosa, B. gosportensis, B. haworthi, B. hilda, B. hisingeriformis, B. hispida, B. hiwannensis, B. hondurasensis, B. isoscelata, B. kaschewarovae, B. kawakensis, B. kelleri, B. kinderhookensis, B. knuepferi, B. legumen, B. longisetosa, B. meishanensis, B. moorei, B. mucronata, B. multihilosa, B. nitida, B. oklahomensis, B. opisthorhadina, B. paraproba, B. peneovoidea, B. philippovae, B. pinnula, B. proxischimensis, B. psiegorkiensis, B. rectifrontis, B. singularis, B. soldadensis, B. subcitriformis, B. subeleziana, B. subvexa, B. summa, B. turgida, B. urodeliformis, B. virga, B. feliumgibba, B. pompillioides, B. gliberti

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1965	Bairdia intermedia Belousova p. 260 figs. Pl 49, fig 1
1985	Cryptobairdia intermedia Kozur p. 61
2008	Bairdia intermedia Mette figs. Pl 1, figs 16-18

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	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
suborder	Bairdiocopina	Grundel 1967
superfamily	Bairdioidea	(Sars 1888)
family	Bairdiidae	Sars 1888
genus	Bairdia
species	intermedia

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.

†Bairdia intermedia Belousova 1965

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
carapace height	3	0.405	0.260	0.510	0.500	0.142
valve height	3	0.575	0.520	0.630	0.580	0.055

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 Wuchiapingian to the top of the Changhsingian or 259.90000 to 252.17000 Ma

Collections (20 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Capitanian	264.28 - 259.51	Azerbaijan	Bairdia intermedia (110674)
Wuchiapingian	259.9 - 254.17	Iran	Bairdia intermedia (155127 155128 155129 155130 155134 155135 155136 155137)
Wuchiapingian	259.9 - 254.17	Azerbaijan	Bairdia intermedia (97229)
Changhsingian	254.17 - 252.17	Azerbaijan	Bairdia intermedia (type locality: 97207)
Changhsingian	254.17 - 252.17	Iran	Bairdia intermedia (110838 155139 155140 155141 155142 155143 155144 155145 155146)