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Protocythere

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherettidae

Taxonomy
Protocythere is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Podocopida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Cytherettinae by Babinot and Colin (2011).

Species
P. bedoulensis
Species lacking formal opinion data
P. rodewaldensis, P. triplicata

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Protocythere Sepkoski
2011Protocythere Babinot and Colin p. 741

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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
subfamilyCytherettinaeTriebel 1952
genusProtocythere

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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†Protocythere bedoulensis Moullade 1963
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: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Kimmeridgian to the top of the Early/Lower Albian or 157.30000 to 109.00000 Ma

Collections (22 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Kimmeridgian157.3 - 152.1Portugal (Centro) P. rodewaldensis (68220)
Late/Upper Berriasian145.0 - 140.2Algeria P. mazenoti (64317 64330 64363 64365)
Late/Upper Berriasian145.0 - 140.2Poland (Masovian Voivodship) P. propria (192536)
Middle Berriasian145.0 - 140.2Algeria P. mazenoti (64328 64360)
Early/Lower Valanginian140.2 - 136.4France P. humilis, P. divisa, P. helvetica, P. sp. (91170)
Early/Lower Hauterivian136.4 - 130.0Germany P. triplicata (64981 76934)
Late/Upper Hauterivian136.4 - 130.0Germany P. triplicata (76937 76939 76953)
Hauterivian132.9 - 129.4France (Provence) P. sp. 3, P. triplicata (56775) P. triplicata (56774)
Hauterivian132.9 - 129.4Germany P. triplicata, P. frankei (76950)
Hauterivian132.9 - 129.4Portugal P. sp. (65742)
Late/Upper Barremian130.0 - 125.45France (Drôme) P. sp., P. bedoulensis (75576)
Barremian129.4 - 125.0Portugal P. sp. (73329 73354)
Early/Lower Albian112.03 - 109.0Tunisia P. galileensis (56812)