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Bairdia chasae

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae

Taxonomy

Bairdia chasae was named by Kellett (1934). Its type specimen is USNM 89482a and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Railroad cut just west of Shawnee-Douglas county line (shaly beds), which is in a Gzhelian carbonate limestone in the Deer Creek Formation of Kansas.

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
1934	Bairdia chasae Kellett p. 135 figs. Pl 18, figs 5a-d, pl 19, figs 5a-d

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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	chasae

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 chasae Kellett 1934

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean	minimum	maximum	median	s.d.
carapace height	4	0.647	0.610	0.680	0.650	0.033

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 Gzhelian to the top of the Wuchiapingian or 303.70000 to 254.14000 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Gzhelian	303.7 - 298.9	USA (Kansas)	Bairdia chasae (132987 type locality: 132993 133152 133154)
Wuchiapingian	259.51 - 254.14	China (Guizhou)	Bairdia chasae (112105)