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Cythereis sculptilis

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Trachyleberididae

Taxonomy

Cythereis sculptilis was named by Alexander (1934). It is not extant. Its type locality is Station 21, tributary of Tehuacana Creek, which is in a Danian/Selandian marginal marine claystone in the Wills Point Formation of Texas.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. bartensteini, C. bernardi, C. bigrandis, C. buechlerae, C. coronata, C. elongata, C. fragillissima, C. garretti, C. gosportensis, C. gueltaensis, C. implicata, C. israelskyi, C. linospinosa, C. longicostata, C. malzi, C. phoenissa, C. quinquespinosa, C. reklawensis, C. sebastiensis, C. sinuata, C. smithvillensis, C. spinosa, C. splendens, C. subgoodlandensis, C. trinidadensis, C. uptonensis, C. variabilocostata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1934	Cythereis sculptilis Alexander p. 221 figs. Plate 32, fig. 13

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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
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)

Rank	Name	Author
superclass	Oligostraca	Zrzavý et al. 1997
class	Ostracoda
subclass	Podocopa	Sars 1865
order	Podocopida	Sars 1866
suborder	Sigilliocopina	Martens 1992
superfamily	Cytheroidea	(Baird 1850)
family	Trachyleberididae	Sylvester-Bradley 1948
subfamily	Trachyleberidinae	Bradley 1948
genus	Cythereis	Jones 1849
species	sculptilis

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.

†Cythereis sculptilis Alexander 1934

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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: Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: base of the Danian to the top of the Early/Lower Eocene or 66.00000 to 48.07000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Danian - Selandian	66.0 - 59.24	USA (Texas)	Cythereis sculptilis (type locality: 191450)
Paleocene	66.0 - 56.0	Trinidad and Tobago	Cythereis sculptilis (94026 94028)
Early/Lower Eocene	56.0 - 48.07	Trinidad and Tobago	Cythereis sculptilis (94022)