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Kangarina

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae

Taxonomy

Kangarina is a genus. It is extant.

It was assigned to Podocopida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Cytheruridae by Benson et al. (1961), Yamaguchi et al. (2016).

Species lacking formal opinion data

K. hendyi, K. mucronata, K. quellita, K. radiata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1961	Kangarina Benson et al. p. Q293
2002	Kangarina Sepkoski
2016	Kangarina Yamaguchi et al. p. 413 figs. Table 3

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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	Sigilliocopina	Martens 1992
superfamily	Cytheroidea	(Baird 1850)
family	Cytheruridae	Müller 1894
genus	Kangarina

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. Kangarina

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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: Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Eocene to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 37.71000 to 0.77400 Ma

Collections (9 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	New Zealand (Canterbury)	K. radiata (161903)
Late/Upper Oligocene	27.3 - 23.04	Puerto Rico	K. sp. (94196)
Aquitanian	23.04 - 20.45	South Africa (North Cape)	K. mucronata, K. hendyi, K. sp. (37451)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.04 - 15.98	Trinidad and Tobago	K. quellita (93917)
Burdigalian	20.45 - 15.98	South Africa (North Cape)	K. mucronata (37487)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.63	Poland	K. abyssicola (138852)
Tortonian	11.63 - 7.246	Panama (Colón)	K. quellita (93909)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.63 - 5.333	Colombia (Atlántico)	K. quellita (93907)
Early/Lower Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.774	Panama	K. sp. (91912)