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Patellacythere

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bythocytheridae

Taxonomy

Patellacythere is a genus. It is extant.

It was assigned to Podocopida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Bythocytheridae by Babinot and Colin (2011), Honigstein and Crasquin (2011), Forel (2017).

Species

P. ephraimi, P. shimonensis, P. tourkosella

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2002	Patellacythere Sepkoski
2011	Patellacythere Babinot and Colin p. 740
2011	Patellacythere Honigstein and Crasquin p. 24
2017	Patellacythere Forel p. 31

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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	Sigilliocopina	Martens 1992
superfamily	Cytheroidea	(Baird 1850)
family	Bythocytheridae	Sars 1928
genus	Patellacythere

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. Patellacythere

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†Patellacythere ephraimi Honigstein and Crasquin 2011

†Patellacythere shimonensis Rosenfeld and Raab 1983

†Patellacythere tourkosella Forel 2017

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
carapace height	2	0.245	0.240	0.250	0.245	0.007

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 Spathian to the top of the Late/Upper Barremian or 248.10000 to 121.40000 Ma

Collections (18 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Spathian - Anisian	248.1 - 241.464	Israel	P. ephraimi (156819 156820 156821 156822 156887 156888 156891 156892 156894 156895 156896 156897)
Julian	237.0 - 233.6	Türkiye	P. tourkosella (197739 197740)
Sevatian	211.18 - 205.7	Canada (Yukon)	P. sp. (225004)
Late/Upper Bajocian	168.6 - 168.2	Russian Federation (Karachay-Cherkessia)	P. sp. (198639)
Bathonian	168.2 - 165.3	Madagascar	P. sp. (101716)
Late/Upper Barremian	125.77 - 121.4	France (Drôme)	P. sp. (75576)