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Asciocythere

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae

Taxonomy
Asciocythere is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Podocopida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Cytherideinae by Babinot and Colin (2011).

Species lacking formal opinion data
A. brevis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Asciocythere Sepkoski
2011Asciocythere Babinot and Colin p. 744

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—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
subfamilyCytherideinaeSars 1925
genusAsciocythere

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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: Bush and Bambach 2015, Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Albian or 154.80000 to 110.10000 Ma

Collections (29 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Kimmeridgian154.8 - 152.21Portugal A. sp. (67937 67942 67943 67951)
Kimmeridgian154.8 - 149.2Portugal A. sp. (67959)
Middle Berriasian141.0 - 139.1Algeria A. sp. (64328)
Late/Upper Berriasian139.1 - 137.05Algeria A. sp. (64363 64365)
Valanginian137.05 - 132.6Portugal A. sp. (65670 65708)
Hauterivian132.6 - 125.77Portugal A. brevis (65761 65855 65858) A. sp. (73321 73337)
Barremian125.77 - 121.4Portugal A. sp. (73155 73329 73356 73524)
Early/Lower Barremian125.77 - 121.4Portugal A. sp. (73349 73352)
Late/Upper Barremian125.77 - 121.4France (Drôme) A. sp. 1, A. sp. (75576)
Barremian - Aptian125.77 - 113.2Portugal A. sp. (73502)
Aptian121.4 - 113.2Portugal A. sp. (73504 73510 73525 73538 73564)
Early/Lower Albian113.2 - 110.1USA (Texas) A. rotunda (31172)