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Bairdia spindlica

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae

Taxonomy

Bairdia spindlica was named by Tanaka and Yuan (2012). Its type specimen is MPC-03645, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Tani-gawa river, Tominoho, Mugi county, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in Japan.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

B. africana, B. altifrons, B. anomala, B. antamputata, B. auricula, B. austriaca, B. billjohnsoni, B. birinae, B. bradfieldi, B. cassiana, B. ciscoensis, B. colonensis, B. condylus, B. confragosaeformis, B. crebra, B. croneisi, B. croskeina, B. cultrijugati, B. dissortis, B. dolicha, B. egorovi, B. eleziana, B. eleziana, B. exoura, B. fabaeformis, B. fusca, B. gibbosa, B. gosportensis, B. haworthi, B. hilda, B. hisingeriformis, B. hispida, B. hiwannensis, B. hondurasensis, B. isoscelata, B. kaschewarovae, B. kawakensis, B. kelleri, B. kinderhookensis, B. knuepferi, B. legumen, B. longisetosa, B. manifesta, B. meishanensis, B. moorei, B. mucronata, B. multihilosa, B. nitida, B. oklahomensis, B. opisthorhadina, B. paraproba, B. peneovoidea, B. philippovae, B. pinnula, B. proxischimensis, B. psiegorkiensis, B. rectifrontis, B. singularis, B. soldadensis, B. subcitriformis, B. subeleziana, B. subvexa, B. summa, B. turgida, B. urodeliformis, B. virga, B. feliumgibba, B. pompillioides, B. gliberti

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2012	Bairdia spindlica Tanaka and Yuan p. 99 fig. 9.3

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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
—	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	Bairdiocopina	Grundel 1967
superfamily	Bairdioidea	(Sars 1888)
family	Bairdiidae	Sars 1888
genus	Bairdia
species	spindlica

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.

†Bairdia spindlica Tanaka and Yuan 2012

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean
carapace height	1	0.520

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: Kungurian or 283.30000 to 274.40000 Ma

Collections: one only

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Kungurian	283.3 - 274.4	Japan	Bairdia spindlica (type locality: 131084)