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Costa

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Trachyleberididae

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Costa Bertels
1992Costa Brouwers p. 17
2002Costa Sepkoski
2002Rectotrachyleberis Sepkoski

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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)
familyTrachyleberididaeSylvester-Bradley 1948
subfamilyTrachyleberidinaeBradley 1948
genusCosta

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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†Paracosta dahomeyi Apostolescu 1961
†Paracosta grekoffi Reyment 1960
†Paracosta warriensis Reyment 1960
†Costa hasenbankae Bertels 1973
Invalid names: Rectotrachyleberis [synonym]
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: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Maastrichtian to the top of the Calabrian or 72.20000 to 0.77400 Ma

Collections (70 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Benin Paracosta grekoffi (241239 241240 241241 241242 241243 241244)
Maastrichtian72.2 - 66.0Morocco C. sp. (94082)
Maastrichtian - Danian72.2 - 61.66Argentina (Rio Negro) C. sp. (236521)
Danian66.0 - 61.66Argentina (Río Negro) C. sp. (220768)
Thanetian59.24 - 56.0Benin Paracosta warriensis (241251)
Thanetian59.24 - 56.0Togo Paracosta dahomeyi (241136)
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07Benin Paracosta dahomeyi (241106 241107)
Ypresian56.0 - 48.07Togo Paracosta dahomeyi (241087 241090 241097 241113 241114 241116 241118 241121 241157 241158 241160 241161 241162)
Early/Lower Eocene - Eocene56.0 - 33.9Nigeria C. sp. (46246)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9Nigeria (Imo) C. sp. (42651 42654 42655)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9Nigeria C. sp. (46255 46260)
Lutetian48.07 - 41.03Bangladesh C. sp. A (209198)
Lutetian48.07 - 41.03Nigeria C. dahomeyi (77257)
Middle Eocene48.07 - 37.71Togo Paracosta dahomeyi (241146 241147 241149)
Bartonian41.03 - 37.71Bangladesh C. sp. A (209194 209195 209199)
Late/Upper Oligocene27.3 - 23.04Antigua and Barbuda C. meka (94178 94179 94184 94185)
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98Cuba (Sancti Spiritus) C. sp. (31183)
Early/Lower Miocene23.04 - 15.98Trinidad and Tobago C. santacrucensis (93911 93916) C. variabilocostata (93915 93917) C. variabilocostata, C. santacrucensis (93912 93913 93914)
Burdigalian20.45 - 15.98Italy (Sardinia) C. punctatissima (93944) C. tricostata (93937 93938 93939 93940 93941) C. tricostata, C. punctatissima (93943)
Late/Upper Miocene11.63 - 5.333Colombia (Atlántico) C. variabilocostata (93901 93903 93905 93906 93907 93908)
Gelasian2.58 - 1.8Italy (Umbria) C. edwardsii (200419)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.58 - 0.774Italy C. batei (176385 176387)
Calabrian1.8 - 0.774Italy (Umbria) C. edwardsii (149603 200420)