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Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi

Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cytherellidae

Taxonomy

Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi was named by Reyment (1963).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. acuta, C. algeriana, C. austinensis, C. bayrichi, C. certissima, C. cingulata, C. circumpunctata, C. collapsa, C. comanchensis, C. compressa, C. dissimilis, C. elegans, C. fimbricinctus, C. flacherensis, C. fragilis, C. gamardensis, C. gracilis, C. guasarensis, C. hemipuncta, C. inaequalis, C. inaequata, C. index, C. krimensis, C. lata, C. lebanonensis, C. levisulcata, C. limpida, C. londinensis, C. lubimovae, C. mediocalva, C. meijeri, C. muensteri, C. obscura, C. oertlii, C. ovata, C. parallela, C. paranitida, C. pilicae, C. polita, C. postdenticulata, C. praecadomensis, C. praetoarcensis, C. pulchra, C. punctata, C. reticuloornata, C. russoi, C. scutulum, C. speetonensis, C. suprajurassica, C. texana, C. vandenboldi, C. vanveenae, C. vulgatella, C. woltersdorfi, C. gantensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1963	Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi Reyment
1998	Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi Carbonnel p. 55

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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	Podocopa	Sars 1865
order	Platycopida	Sars 1866
suborder	Platycopina	Sars 1866
superfamily	Cytherelloidea	Sars 1886
family	Cytherellidae	Sars 1866
genus	Cytherella	Jones 1849
species	sylvesterbradleyi	Reyment 1963

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 sylvesterbradleyi Reyment 1963

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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: Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Ypresian or 72.20000 to 48.07000 Ma

Collections (8 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Benin	Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi (241239 241243 241244)
Danian	66.0 - 61.66	Benin	Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi (241246 241247)
Danian - Selandian	66.0 - 59.24	Benin	Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi (241249)
Thanetian	59.24 - 56.0	Benin	Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi (241255)
Ypresian	56.0 - 48.07	Benin	Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi (241254)