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Cythereis deusseni

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Trachyleberididae

Taxonomy

Cythereis deusseni was named by Howe and Chambers (1935). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Gibson landing on the Ouachita River, Caldwell Parish, which is in an Eocene marginal marine horizon in Louisiana.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. americana, C. bartensteini, C. bernardi, C. bigrandis, C. buechlerae, C. bursilloides, C. carpenterae, C. catahoulana, C. collei, C. coronata, C. davidwhitei, C. dentonensis, C. elmana, C. elongata, C. exanthamata, C. exanthemata, C. fahrinoni, C. fragillissima, C. garretti, C. gosportensis, C. gueltaensis, C. hawleyi, C. hirsuta, C. horrescens, C. huntensis, C. hysonensis, C. hysonensis, C. implicata, C. ischoppi, C. israelskyi, C. libanensis, C. linospinosa, C. longicostata, C. mahonae, C. malzi, C. martini, C. mersondaviesi, C. nuda, C. ornatissima, C. paupera, C. phoenissa, C. pipkinensis, C. pustulosissima, C. quinquespinosa, C. reklawensis, C. rugipunctata, C. sebastiensis, C. senckenbergi, C. sinuata, C. smithvillensis, C. spinosa, C. splendens, C. subgoodlandensis, C. trinidadensis, C. tuberculata, C. uptonensis, C. variabilocostata, C. vaughani, C. worthensis

Entered

by M. Fernandes Martins on 2018-02-20

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1935	Cythereis deusseni Howe and Chambers p. 27 figs. Plate I, figure 15; Plate VI, figure 2,3

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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
—	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	deusseni

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 deusseni Howe and Chambers 1935

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

low Mg calcitec

Environment:

marinec

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: Eocene or 56.00000 to 33.90000 Ma

Collections (7 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Eocene	56.0 - 33.9	USA (Louisiana)	Cythereis deusseni (191908 type locality: 191913 191923 191935)
Eocene	56.0 - 33.9	USA (Mississippi)	Cythereis deusseni (191936 191999 192006)