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Bektasia khanehktaensis

Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae

Taxonomy
Reubenella khanehktaensis was named by Crasquin-Soleau and Teherani (1995). Its type specimen is P6M1411, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is WB-MO-8, Michparvar Mountain, southwest of Borujerd, which is in a Julian carbonate limestone in the Khaneh Kat Formation of Iran.

It was recombined as Bektasia khanehktaensis by Özdikmen (2010).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1995Reubenella khanehktaensis Crasquin-Soleau and Teherani p. 33 figs. Pl 2, figs 1-12
2010Bektasia khanehktaensis Özdikmen p. 316

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
EcdysozoaAguinaldo et al. 1997
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
Deuteropoda
Mandibulata
PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassOligostracaZrzavý et al. 1997
classOstracoda
subclassPodocopaSars 1865
orderPlatycopidaSars 1866
suborderPlatycopinaSars 1866
superfamilyCavellinoideaEgorov 1950
familyCavellinidaeEgorov 1950
genusBektasia
specieskhanehktaensis()

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.

Bektasia khanehktaensis Crasquin-Soleau and Teherani 1995
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
carapace height80.3660.3100.4200.3650.034

Composition: low Mg calcitec
Environment: hypersaline, marine, brackish, freshwaterc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Diet 2: suspension feedero
Vision: blindo
Created: 2010-02-05 01:56:31
Modified: 2011-06-14 02:59:51
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Julian or 237.00000 to 233.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Julian237.0 - 233.6Iran Reubenella khanehktaensis (type locality: 156787)