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Polycope pumicosa

Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Polycopidae

Taxonomy

Polycope pumicosa was named by Apostolescu (1959).

Subspecies

P. schleiferae

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

P. antiqua, P. demulderi, P. discoides, P. discus, P. ludwigi, P. orbicularis, P. ornata, P. penicillatum, P. perminuta, P. perminutus, P. plumhoffi, P. provecta, P. tenuireticulata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1959	Polycope pumicosa Apostolescu
2017	Polycope pumicosa Forel p. 44 fig. 24D
2022	Polycope pumicosa Forel p. 351 figs. Pl 6Z, AA

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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	Myodocopa	Sars 1866
order	Myodocopida	Sars 1866
suborder	Myodocopina	Sars 1866
superfamily	Polycopoidea	Sars 1866
family	Polycopidae	Sars 1866
genus	Polycope
species	pumicosa	Apostolescu 1959

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.

†Polycope pumicosa Apostolescu 1959

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†Polycope pumicosa schleiferae Kozur 1971

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean
shell height	1	0.630

Composition:

low Mg calcitec

Environment:

hypersaline, marine, brackish, freshwaterc

Locomotion:

actively mobilec

Life habit:

shallow infaunalg

Diet:

suspension feedero

Diet 2:

detritivoreo

Vision:

blindg

Created:

2010-02-06 01:56:31

Modified:

2010-02-23 23:11:27

Source: g = genus, o = order, c = class

References: Alvarez et al. 2008, Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: base of the Aegean to the top of the Spinatum or 246.70000 to 184.20000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Aegean	246.7 - 244.99	Romania	Polycope pumicosa (154997)
Anisian	246.7 - 241.464	Romania	Polycope pumicosa (48608)
Julian	237.0 - 233.6	Türkiye	Polycope pumicosa (197740)
Spinatum	192.9 - 184.2	Portugal	Polycope pumicosa (33470)