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Pontocythere

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cushmanideidae

Taxonomy
Pontocythere is a genus. It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Cushmanidea by Benson et al. (1961).

It was assigned to Podocopida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Cushmanideidae by Yamaguchi et al. (2016).

Species lacking formal opinion data
P. curvata, P. elongata, P. hedleyi, P. lithodomoides, P. turbida
Entered
by J. Sepkoski on 2003-01-23

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Pontocythere Sepkoski
2016Pontocythere Yamaguchi et al. p. 414 figs. Table 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaGravenhorst 1843
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassOligostracaZrzavý et al. 1997
classOstracoda
subclassPodocopaSars 1865
orderPodocopidaSars 1866
suborderSigilliocopinaMartens 1992
superfamilyCytheroidea(Baird 1850)
familyCushmanideidae
genusPontocythere

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: marinec
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: base of the Late/Upper Eocene to the top of the Holocene or 37.71000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Eocene37.71 - 33.9New Zealand (Canterbury) P. hedleyi (161903)
Chattian27.3 - 23.04USA (Washington) P. sp. (91619 240703)
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04USA (Louisiana) P. sp. (44521)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.63Poland P. curvata (138846 138847 138851)
Tortonian11.63 - 7.246Belgium (Antwerpen) P. lithodomoides (48092)
Zanclean5.333 - 3.6USA (North Carolina) P. i, P. g, P. j, P. d (52582)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Greece (Rhodes) P. elongata (122994)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0France P. turbida, P. elongata (56806)