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Cytherella tuberculifera

Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cytherellidae

Taxonomy

Cytherella tuberculifera was named by Alexander (1929).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. acuta, C. austinensis, C. bayrichi, C. cingulata, C. circumpunctata, C. fimbricinctus, C. fragilis, C. gracilis, C. guasarensis, C. hemipuncta, C. index, C. krimensis, C. levisulcata, C. limpida, C. meijeri, C. obscura, C. parallela, C. praetoarcensis, C. pulchra, C. speetonensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1929	Cytherella tuberculifera Alexander
1994	Cytherella tuberculifera Puckett p. 1321 fig. 4.1

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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

Rank	Name	Author
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)
superclass	Oligostraca	Zrzavý et al. 1997
class	Ostracoda
subclass	Podocopa	Sars 1865
order	Platycopida	Sars 1866
suborder	Platycopina	Sars 1866
superfamily	Cytherelloidea	Sars 1886
family	Cytherellidae	Sars 1866
genus	Cytherella	Jones 1849
species	tuberculifera	Alexander 1929

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.

†Cytherella tuberculifera Alexander 1929

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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:

suspension feedero

Vision:

blindo

Created:

2010-02-05 01:56:31

Modified:

2011-06-14 02:59:51

Source: o = order, c = class

References: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Late/Upper Santonian or 85.70000 to 83.60000 Ma

Collections (3 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	USA (Alabama)	Cytherella tuberculifera (93949 93950 93951)