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Bairdia piscariformis

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae

Taxonomy

Bairdia piscariformis was named by Chen (1958). Its type specimen is NIGP 9087 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is AV-36, Guanshan Section, Longtan, Nanjing City, which is in a Kungurian carbonate limestone in the Qixia Formation of China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

B. africana, B. altifrons, B. anomala, B. antamputata, B. auricula, B. austriaca, B. billjohnsoni, B. birinae, B. bradfieldi, B. cassiana, B. ciscoensis, B. colonensis, B. condylus, B. confragosaeformis, B. crebra, B. croneisi, B. croskeina, B. cultrijugati, B. dissortis, B. dolicha, B. egorovi, B. eleziana, B. exoura, B. fabaeformis, B. fusca, B. gibbosa, B. gosportensis, B. haworthi, B. hilda, B. hisingeriformis, B. hispida, B. hiwannensis, B. hondurasensis, B. isoscelata, B. kaschewarovae, B. kawakensis, B. kelleri, B. kinderhookensis, B. knuepferi, B. legumen, B. longisetosa, B. meishanensis, B. moorei, B. mucronata, B. multihilosa, B. nitida, B. oklahomensis, B. opisthorhadina, B. paraproba, B. peneovoidea, B. philippovae, B. pinnula, B. proxischimensis, B. psiegorkiensis, B. rectifrontis, B. singularis, B. soldadensis, B. subcitriformis, B. subeleziana, B. subvexa, B. summa, B. turgida, B. urodeliformis, B. virga, B. feliumgibba, B. pompillioides, B. gliberti

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1958	Bairdia piscariformis Chen p. 223 figs. Pl 4, figs 9,10
2008	Bairdia piscariformis Chitnarin et al. p. 347 figs. 6.1-6.2
2017	Bairdia piscariformis Chitnarin p. 668 figs. 13K-L
2020	Bairdia piscariformis Gliwa et al. fig. 8X,Y

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa
—	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	Podocopida	Sars 1866
suborder	Bairdiocopina	Grundel 1967
superfamily	Bairdioidea	(Sars 1888)
family	Bairdiidae	Sars 1888
genus	Bairdia
species	piscariformis

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.

†Bairdia piscariformis Chen 1958

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean
carapace height	1	0.580

Composition:

low Mg calcitec

Environment:

hypersaline, marine, brackish, freshwaterc

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: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Asselian to the top of the Induan or 298.90000 to 251.20000 Ma

Collections (11 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Asselian	298.9 - 295.5	Thailand	Bairdia piscariformis (137889)
Artinskian	290.1 - 279.3	China (Fujian)	Bairdia piscariformis (95702)
Kungurian	279.3 - 272.3	China (Fujian)	Bairdia piscariformis (95704 95705 95707)
Kungurian	279.3 - 272.3	China (Jiangsu)	Bairdia piscariformis (type locality: 142165)
Kungurian	279.3 - 272.3	Thailand	Bairdia piscariformis (137925 137926)
Changhsingian	254.17 - 252.17	Iran	Bairdia piscariformis (220251)
Induan	252.17 - 251.2	Turkey	Bairdia piscariformis (48047)
Griesbachian	251.902 - 250.5	Iran	Bairdia piscariformis (220261)