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Cythereis cornuta

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Trachyleberididae

Taxonomy

Cytherina cornuta was named by Roemer (1838).

It was recombined as Cythereis cornuta by Ulrich and Bassler (1904).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

C. americana, C. bartensteini, C. bernardi, C. bigrandis, C. buechlerae, C. bursilloides, C. carpenterae, C. catahoulana, C. collei, C. coronata, C. davidwhitei, C. dentonensis, C. elmana, C. elongata, C. exanthamata, C. exanthemata, C. fahrinoni, C. fragillissima, C. garretti, C. gosportensis, C. gueltaensis, C. hawleyi, C. hirsuta, C. horrescens, C. huntensis, C. hysonensis, C. hysonensis, C. implicata, C. ischoppi, C. israelskyi, C. libanensis, C. linospinosa, C. longicostata, C. mahonae, C. malzi, C. martini, C. mersondaviesi, C. nuda, C. ornatissima, C. paupera, C. phoenissa, C. pipkinensis, C. pustulosissima, C. quinquespinosa, C. reklawensis, C. rugipunctata, C. sebastiensis, C. senckenbergi, C. sinuata, C. smithvillensis, C. spinosa, C. splendens, C. subgoodlandensis, C. trinidadensis, C. tuberculata, C. uptonensis, C. variabilocostata, C. vaughani, C. worthensis

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1838	Cytherina cornuta Roemer p. 518 figs. Plate VI, Fig. 31
1904	Cythereis cornuta Ulrich and Bassler p. 121

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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
—	Hymenostraca	(Rolfe 1969)

Rank	Name	Author
superclass	Oligostraca	Zrzavý et al. 1997
class	Ostracoda
subclass	Podocopa	Sars 1865
order	Podocopida	Sars 1866
suborder	Sigilliocopina	Martens 1992
superfamily	Cytheroidea	(Baird 1850)
family	Trachyleberididae	Sylvester-Bradley 1948
subfamily	Trachyleberidinae	Bradley 1948
genus	Cythereis	Jones 1849
species	cornuta	(Roemer 1838)

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.

†Cythereis cornuta Roemer 1838

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†Pterygocythereis americana Ulrich and Bassler 1904

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:

grazero

Vision:

limitedc

Created:

2010-02-05 02:00:00

Modified:

2010-02-23 23:16:56

Source: o = order, c = class

References: Kiessling 2004, Jell and Adrain 2002

Age range: Middle Miocene or 15.98000 to 11.63000 Ma

Collections (4 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Middle Miocene	15.98 - 11.63	Venezuela	Pterygocythereis americana (93920 93927 93928 93932)