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Healdia cincta

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Healdiidae

Taxonomy

Healdia cincta was named by Coryell and Billing (1932). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Wayland Shale, near Cisco TX, Ostracoda, which is in a Pennsylvanian offshore shale in the Graham Formation of Texas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

H. absentia, H. alba, H. alveolata, H. arcuata, H. boggyensis, H. canyensis, H. ciscoensis, H. colinyi, H. cornigera, H. cypha, H. dahlgrueni, H. etaulensis, H. felsoorsensis, H. formosa, H. glennensis, H. harltoni, H. leguminoidea, H. limacoidea, H. longa, H. malotti, H. marginata, H. miranda, H. nucleolata, H. oblonga, H. oklahomaensis, H. ornata, H. overbrookensis, H. parva, H. postcornuta, H. pseudosimplex, H. punctata, H. quadrispinosa, H. squamosa, H. subcircinantis, H. subtriangula, H. torquata, H. unicornis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1932	Healdia cincta Coryell and Billing
1997	Healdia cincta Crasquin-Soleau p. 62 figs. Pl 4, fig 17

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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
suborder	Metacopina	Sylvester-Bradley 1961
superfamily	Healdioidea	(Harlton 1933)
family	Healdiidae
genus	Healdia	Roundy 1926
species	cincta	Coryell and Billing 1932

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.

†Healdia cincta Coryell and Billing 1932

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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: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Pennsylvanian to the top of the Artinskian or 323.40000 to 283.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Pennsylvanian	323.4 - 298.9	USA (Texas)	Healdia cincta (type locality: 210784)
Artinskian	290.1 - 283.3	Canada (British Columbia)	Healdia cincta (106670)