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Cytheretta

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherettidae

Taxonomy
Cytheretta is a genus. It is extant. It is the type genus of Cytherettidae.

It was assigned to Cytherettidae by Benson et al. (1961); and to Podocopida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1961Cytheretta Benson et al. p. Q270
2002Cytheretta 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
orderPodocopidaSars 1866
suborderSigilliocopinaMartens 1992
superfamilyCytheroidea(Baird 1850)
familyCytherettidaeTriebel 1952
genusCytheretta

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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†Cytheretta alexanderi Howe and Chambers 1935
†Cytheretta burnsi 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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Late/Upper Santonian to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 85.80000 to 0.78100 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 83.5 Ma

Collections (51 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Santonian85.8 - 83.5Morocco C. koubbatensis (94060)
Maastrichtian72.1 - 66.0Morocco C. koubbatensis (94075 94076 94077 94078)
Paleocene66.0 - 56.0Trinidad and Tobago C. arrugia (94013 94016 94017 94021)
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8United Kingdom (England) C. scrobiculoplicata (8025)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9USA (Mississippi) C. alexanderi (191936 191999)
Eocene56.0 - 33.9USA (Louisiana) C. alexanderi (191908 191911 191912 191913 191914 191923 191933 191934 191935)
Lutetian47.8 - 41.3USA (California) C. sp. (200657)
Middle Eocene47.8 - 37.71Hungary C. haimeana (171632)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (North Carolina) C. alexanderi (60452)
Bartonian41.3 - 38.0USA (Alabama) C. alexanderi (94040)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9USA (Alabama) C. alexanderi (94153 94154 94155 94156 94157)
Late/Upper Eocene37.2 - 33.9USA (Louisiana/Texas) C. alexanderi (45017)
Early/Lower Oligocene33.9 - 28.4Mexico (Veracruz) C. sp. (94164 94173)
Oligocene33.9 - 23.03USA (Alabama) C. alexanderi (191978 191979)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Italy (Sardinia) C. semipunctata (93945)
Serravallian13.82 - 11.62Poland C. ornata (138841 138846 138847 138848 138851 138852)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Greece C. semiornata (138312 138429) C. striotopunctata, C. sp., C. semiornata (138584)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333USA (Maryland) C. burnsi (191407)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333Colombia (Atlántico) C. sp. (93904)
Late/Upper Miocene11.608 - 5.333USA (Florida) C. sp. (94805 94808)
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Morocco C. judaea (34723)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (Florida) C. sahnii (41501)