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Healdia crespinae

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Healdiidae

Taxonomy

Healdia crespinae was named by Ferdinando (2001). Its type specimen is UWA 128894 and is a 3D body fossil.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

H. absentia, H. alba, H. boggyensis, H. canyensis, H. ciscoensis, H. cypha, H. formosa, H. glennensis, H. harltoni, H. leguminoidea, H. limacoidea, H. longa, H. malotti, H. marginata, H. miranda, H. nucleolata, H. oklahomaensis, H. overbrookensis, H. quadrispinosa, H. squamosa, H. torquata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
2001	Healdia crespinae Ferdinando p. 55 figs. Pl 3, figs 25-29; pl 4, figs 1-5

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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	Metacopina	Sylvester-Bradley 1961
superfamily	Healdioidea	(Harlton 1933)
family	Healdiidae
genus	Healdia	Roundy 1926
species	crespinae

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.

†Healdia crespinae Ferdinando 2001

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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:

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: Sakmarian or 293.52000 to 290.10000 Ma

Collections (20 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Sakmarian	293.52 - 290.1	Australia (Western Australia)	Healdia crespinae (108209 108210 108211 108223 108230 108231 108236 108238 108241 108244 108245 108246 108285 108287 108289 108290 108296 108297 108298 108299)