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Eucytherura

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae

Taxonomy

Eucytherura is a genus. It is extant.

It was assigned to Podocopida by Sepkoski (2002); to Cytheropterinae by Ceolin et al. (2015); to Cytherurinae by Babinot and Colin (2011) and Forel (2017); and to Cytheruridae by Ceolin et al. (2024).

Species

E. lacerata, E. murdercreekensis, E. norica, E. stibaros, Movschovitschia interrupta

Species lacking formal opinion data

E. argentina, E. claibornensis, E. complexa, E. costata, E. liassica, E. multituberculata, E. ruggierii, E. transversiplicata, E. zambujalensis

Synonyms

Movschovitschia was named by Kozur (1971) [Sepkoski's age data: Tr m Sepkoski's reference number: ZR85].

It was reranked as Lophodentina (Movschovitschia) by Kozur and Bolz (1971); it was synonymized subjectively with Eucytherura by Forel (2017).

It was assigned to Lophodentina by Kozur and Bolz (1971); to Glorianellidae by Crasquin-Soleau and Teherani (1995); and to Palaeocopida by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1971	Movschovitschia Kozur
1971	Lophodentina (Movschovitschia) Kozur and Bolz
1995	Movschovitschia Crasquin-Soleau and Teherani p. 28
2002	Eucytherura Sepkoski
2002	Movchovitschia Sepkoski
2011	Eucytherura Babinot and Colin p. 747
2015	Eucytherura Ceolin et al.
2017	Eucytherura Forel p. 32
2024	Eucytherura Ceolin et al.

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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	Sigilliocopina	Martens 1992
superfamily	Cytheroidea	(Baird 1850)
family	Cytheruridae	Müller 1894
subfamily	Cytherurinae	Müller 1894
genus	Eucytherura

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.

G. Eucytherura

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†Eucytherura lacerata Forel 2017

†Eucytherura murdercreekensis Howe and Law 1936

†Eucytherura norica Kozur and Bolz 1971

†Eucytherura stibaros Ceolin et al. 2015

Invalid names: Movschovitschia Kozur 1971 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean
carapace height	1	0.210

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: base of the Julian to the top of the Early/Lower Pleistocene or 235.00000 to 0.78100 Ma

Collections (65 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Julian	235.0 - 232.0	Turkey	E. norica, E. lacerata (197740)
Julian	235.0 - 232.0	Iran	Movschovitschia interrupta (156787)
Sinemurian - Pliensbachian	199.3 - 182.7	United Kingdom (Wales)	E. liassica (33493)
Davoei	189.6 - 183.0	Portugal	E. zambujalensis (33463)
Ibex	189.6 - 183.0	Portugal	E. zambujalensis (33459 33460)
Jamesoni	189.6 - 183.0	Portugal	E. zambujalensis (33457)
Margaritatus	189.6 - 183.0	Portugal	E. zambujalensis (33464 33465 33466 33467)
Early/Lower Toarcian	183.0 - 182.0	Portugal	E. transversiplicata (33485)
Toarcian	182.7 - 174.1	Germany	E. liassica (59433)
Levesquei	182.0 - 175.6	Germany	E. angulocostata, E. liassica (59428 59430) E. liassica (59431)
Levesquei	182.0 - 175.6	Portugal	E. transversiplicata (33486 33487 33488 33489)
Late/Upper Toarcian	180.1 - 175.6	Germany	E. liassica (59445 59449 59450 59451)
Late/Upper Bajocian	171.6 - 167.7	Russian Federation (Karachay-Cherkessia)	E. sp. (198644 198645 198680 198692 198696) E. sp., E. sigmoidea (198698) E. sp., E. sp. 2, E. sp. 4 (198695) E. sp., E. sp. 5 (198639) E. sp., E. sp. 6 (198674 198681) E. sp., E. sp. 6, E. argentina (198673)
Berriasian	145.0 - 139.8	Ukraine	E. ardescae (162310)
Early/Lower Valanginian	140.2 - 136.4	France	E. ardescae (91170)
Late/Upper Barremian	130.0 - 125.45	France (Drôme)	E. sp. (75576)
Early/Lower Albian	112.03 - 109.0	Tunisia	E. kokhavensis, E. costata (56812)
Middle Albian	109.0 - 105.3	Tunisia	E. kokhavensis, E. sp. (56813)
Late/Upper Albian	105.3 - 99.6	Tunisia	E. kokhavensis (56815) E. kokhavensis, E. multituberculata (56816) E. multituberculata (56814 56817)
Maastrichtian	72.1 - 66.0	Argentina (Neuquén)	E. stibaros (231995 231997)
Danian	66.0 - 61.6	Argentina (Neuquén)	E. sp., E. stibaros (232002 232003) E. stibaros (231999 232004 232009)
Paleocene	66.0 - 56.0	Trinidad and Tobago	E. decorata (94013)
Early/Lower Eocene	55.8 - 48.6	USA (Texas)	E. claibornensis (94035)
Lutetian	47.8 - 41.3	North Atlantic	E. sp. (201903)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.2 - 33.9	New Zealand (Canterbury)	E. calabra, E. sp. 1, E. sp. 2 (161903)
Rupelian	33.9 - 28.1	Germany	E. dentata (95898)
Aquitanian	23.03 - 20.44	South Africa (North Cape)	E. sp. (37451)
Early/Lower Miocene	23.03 - 15.97	Trinidad and Tobago	E. ruggierii (93913)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	Italy (Sardinia)	E. mistrettai (93941 93943)
Burdigalian	20.44 - 15.97	South Africa (North Cape)	E. sp. (37487)
Serravallian	13.82 - 11.62	Poland	E. complexa (138841 138849)
Tortonian	11.62 - 7.246	Greece	E. sp. (138333)
Early/Lower Pleistocene	2.588 - 0.781	Panama	E. sp. (91912)