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Knightina texana

Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Knightinidae

Taxonomy
Kirkbya texana was named by Harlton (1928). It is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is TX Foram & Ostra, W of Cisco, which is in a Pennsylvanian marine horizon in the Cisco Formation of Texas.

It was recombined as Knightina texana by Kellett (1933) and Melnyk and Maddocks (1988).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
K. confluens, K. cuestaforma, K. fidlari, K. jiqiangi

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1928Kirkbya texana Harlton p. 135 figs. Pl 21, figs 6a,b
1933Knightina texana Kellett p. 100 figs. Pl 16, figs 23-28
1988Knightina texana Melnyk and Maddocks p. 34 figs. pl. 2 f. 19

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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
subclassPodocopaSars 1865
orderPalaeocopidaHenningsmoen 1953
suborderBeyrichicopinaScott 1961
superfamilyKirkbyoidea(Ulrich and Bassler 1906)
familyKnightinidaeSohn 1970
genusKnightina
speciestexana(Harlton 1928)

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.

†Knightina texana Harlton 1928
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Diagnosis
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