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Polycope kilekensis

Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Polycopidae

Taxonomy
Polycope kilekensis was named by Forel (2017). Its type specimen is P6M4237, a valve (right valve), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Kilek section, Kilek-24, which is in a Julian offshore limestone in the Huglu Tuffite Formation of Turkey.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. demulderi, P. discus, P. orbicularis, P. ornata, P. perminuta, P. provecta

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2017Polycope kilekensis Forel p. 45 figs. 24G-I

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
—Deuteropoda
—Mandibulata
—PancrustaceaZrzavý and Štys 1997
RankNameAuthor
—Hymenostraca(Rolfe 1969)
superclassOligostracaZrzavý et al. 1997
classOstracoda
subclassMyodocopaSars 1866
orderMyodocopidaSars 1866
suborderMyodocopinaSars 1866
superfamilyPolycopoideaSars 1866
familyPolycopidaeSars 1866
genusPolycope
specieskilekensis

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 kilekensis Forel 2017
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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: 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: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004, Alvarez et al. 2008

Age range: Julian or 235.00000 to 232.00000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Julian235.0 - 232.0Turkey Polycope kilekensis (type locality: 197740)