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Bolbopisthia

Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Lomatopisthiidae

Taxonomy
Bolbopisthia is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Lomatopisthiidae by Copeland (2000); and to Palaeocopida by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data
B. lenzi, B. ludvigseni, B. progressa reticulata

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2000Bolbopisthia Copeland p. 221
2002Bolbopisthia Sepkoski

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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
superfamilyKloedenioidea(Ulrich and Bassler 1908)
familyLomatopisthiidaeGuber and Jaanusson 1964
genusBolbopisthia

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.

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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: suspension feedero
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2010-02-06 00:42:06
Modified: 2010-02-23 22:46:12
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Alvarez et al. 2008

Age range: base of the Sandbian to the top of the Edenian or 458.40000 to 450.20000 Ma

Collections (18 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Chazyan470.0 - 457.3Canada (Northwest Territories) B. ludvigseni (24621 25862 25933 25935 26057) B. sp. (315)
Sandbian458.4 - 453.0Canada (Northwest Territories) B. lenzi (102271)
Blackriveran457.3 - 449.6Canada (Northwest Territories) B. lenzi, B. ludvigseni (24631) B. ludvigseni (24628 102240)
Blackriveran - Rocklandian457.3 - 449.6Canada (Northwest Territories) B. lenzi (24634)
Rocklandian - Kirkfieldian457.3 - 449.6Canada (Northwest Territories) B. lenzi, B. ludvigseni (24635)
Wildernessian457.3 - 449.6Canada (Northwest Territories) B. lenzi (102242 102249) B. sp. (26960 102246)
Chatfieldian453.8 - 451.0USA (Kentucky) B. progressa reticulata (34555)
Edenian451.0 - 450.2Canada (Northwest Territories) B. sp. (24636)