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Eucypris

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cyprididae

Taxonomy

Eucypris was named by Vavra (1891). It is not extant. It is the type genus of Eucypridinae.

It was assigned to Eucypridinae by Whatley et al. (2002); and to Cyprididae by Winsor et al. (2012).

Species

E. intervolcanus, E. pelasgicos

Species lacking formal opinion data

E. elata, E. elliptica, E. hagni, E. virens

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1891	Eucypris Vavra
2002	Eucypris Whatley et al. p. 111
2012	Eucypris Winsor et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	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	Cypridocopina	Jones 1901
superfamily	Cypridoidea	(Baird 1845)
family	Cyprididae	Baird 1845
genus	Eucypris	Vavra 1891

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. †Eucypris Vavra 1891

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†Eucypris intervolcanus Whatley and Bajpai 2000

†Eucypris pelasgicos Whatley and Bajpai 2000

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitec

Environment:

freshwatersuperf

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

epifaunalo

Diet:

detritivoreo

Diet 2:

grazero

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2017-04-17 09:59:44

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:59:44

Source: superf = superfamily, o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: base of the Middle Campanian to the top of the Holocene or 83.60000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mongolia (Omnogov)	E. elata (11582)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	India (Madhya Pradesh)	E. pelasgicos, E. intervolcanus (222692)
Early/Lower Oligocene	33.9 - 27.3	USA (Montana)	E. sp. (211242 211243 211244)
Oligocene	33.9 - 23.04	Germany (Rheinland Pfalz)	E. sp. (37967 37978)
Miocene - Pliocene	23.04 - 2.58	Uganda	Eucypris indet. (22440)
MN 5	15.98 - 13.82	Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg)	E. hagni (175727)
Early/Lower Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.774	Italy	E. virens (176388)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	Dominican Republic	E. elliptica (97552)