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Anthracophausia

Malacostraca - Euphausiacea - Anthracophausiidae

Taxonomy

Anthracophausia is a genus. It is not extant. Its type is Anthracophausia dunsiana.

It was assigned to Eocaridacea by Sepkoski (2002); and to Anthracophausiidae by Schram (1979) and Hegna et al. (2020).

Species

A. dunsiana (syn. Crangopsis couttsi, Crangopsis hastata, Palaemysis dunlopi, Palaemysis tenuis, Crangopsis magna, Palaemysis couttsi, Crangopsis rhodesi) (type species), A. ingelsorum, A. rheamsi

Synonyms

Palaemysis is a genus. It is not extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Anthracophausia by Schram (1979).

It was assigned to Eocaridacea by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1979	Anthracophausia Schram p. 67
2002	Anthracophausia Sepkoski
2002	Palaemysis Sepkoski
2020	Anthracophausia Hegna et al. p. 24

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata

Rank	Name	Author
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)
superclass	Multicrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
class	Malacostraca	()
subclass	Eumalacostraca	Grobben 1892
—	Caridoida	Hessler 1982
order	Euphausiacea	Dana 1852
family	Anthracophausiidae	Brooks 1962
genus	Anthracophausia

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.

G. †Anthracophausia

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†Anthracophausia dunsiana Peach 1908

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Invalid names: Crangopsis couttsi Peach 1908 [synonym], Crangopsis hastata Peach 1908 [synonym], Crangopsis magna Peach 1908 [synonym], Crangopsis rhodesi Peach 1908 [synonym], Palaemysis couttsi Peach 1908 [synonym], Palaemysis dunlopi Peach 1908 [synonym], Palaemysis tenuis Peach 1908 [synonym]

†Anthracophausia ingelsorum Schram 1976

†Anthracophausia rheamsi Vohs et al. 2023

Invalid names: Palaemysis [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

epifaunalc

Diet:

omnivorec

Vision:

well-developedc

Created:

2005-02-03 08:12:00

Modified:

2010-02-04 15:07:01

Source: c = class

Reference: Aberhan 1992

Age range: base of the Visean to the top of the Moscovian or 346.70000 to 307.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Visean	346.7 - 330.9	United Kingdom (Scotland)	A. sp., Palaemysis sp. (220874)
Pendleian	330.9 - 327.0	United Kingdom (Scotland)	Palaemysis sp. (134654)
Westphalian A	318.7 - 316.9	USA (Alabama)	A. rheamsi (232430)
Moscovian	315.2 - 307.0	USA (Illinois)	A. ingelsorum (157801)