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Lissocardia silesiaca

Malacostraca - Decapoda - Litogastroidae

Taxonomy

Lissocardia silesiaca was named by von Meyer (1849). It is not extant. Its type locality is Böhm quarry, Tarnowitz, which is in a Pelsonian carbonate limestone in the Karchowice Formation of Poland. It is the type species of Lissocardia.

Synonyms

Lissocardia magna was named by von Meyer (1849). It is not extant. Its type locality is Böhm quarry, Tarnowitz, which is in a Pelsonian carbonate limestone in the Karchowice Formation of Poland.

It was synonymized subjectively with Lissocardia silesiaca by Assmann (1927), Förster (1967), Garassino et al. (1999).
Piratella badensis was named by Assmann (1927). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Merzhausen, south of Breisgau, which is in a Pelsonian carbonate limestone in the Jena Formation of Germany.

It was synonymized subjectively with Lissocardia silesiaca by Garassino et al. (1999), Garassino et al. (2000); it was recombined as Lissocardia badensis by Förster (1967), Schweitzer et al. (2010).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1849	Lissocardia silesiaca von Meyer p. 254 figs. Pl 32, figs 34, 35, 37-39
1849	Lissocardia magna von Meyer p. 257 figs. Pl 32, fig 36
1927	Lissocardia silesiaca Assmann p. 336 figs. Pl 8, figs 4-8; pl 13, fig 1
1927	Piratella badensis Assmann p. 338 figs. Pl 8, figs 2,3
1967	Lissocardia silesiaca Förster p. 175 figs. Pl 9, fig 6; text-fig 14
1967	Lissocardia badensis Förster p. 176
1999	Lissocardia silesiaca Garassino et al. p. 77 figs. 5-10
2000	Lissocardia silesiaca Garassino et al. p. 30 fig. 4,5
2010	Lissocardia badensis Schweitzer et al. p. 25
2010	Lissocardia magna Schweitzer et al. p. 25
2010	Lissocardia silesiaca Schweitzer et al. p. 25
2015	Lissocardia silesiaca Feldmann et al. p. 19 fig. 14.1a,b

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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
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)
superclass	Multicrustacea	Regier et al. 2010

Rank	Name	Author
class	Malacostraca	()
subclass	Eumalacostraca	Grobben 1892
—	Caridoida	Hessler 1982
order	Decapoda
suborder	Pleocyemata	Burkenroad 1963
—	Reptantia	(Boas)
infraorder	Glypheidea	Winckler 1882
superfamily	Glypheoidea	Winckler 1882
family	Litogastroidae
genus	Lissocardia
species	silesiaca

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.

†Lissocardia silesiaca von Meyer 1849

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Invalid names: Lissocardia magna von Meyer 1849 [synonym], Piratella badensis Assmann 1927 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

semi-infaunalf

Diet:

carnivoreo

Vision:

well-developedc

Created:

2022-11-16 16:09:13

Modified:

2022-11-16 16:09:13

Source: f = family, o = order, c = class

References: Fearon and Clapham 2023, Aberhan 1992, Turnsek 1997

Age range: base of the Pelsonian to the top of the Illyrian or 244.24000 to 241.46400 Ma

Collections (6 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Pelsonian	244.24 - 243.33	Poland	Lissocardia magna, Lissocardia silesiaca (type locality: 136176)
Pelsonian	244.24 - 243.33	Germany	Piratella badensis (225852)
Illyrian	243.33 - 241.464	Germany	Lissocardia silesiaca (127457 221760 221761 221762)