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Ruggieria

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Trachyleberididae

Taxonomy
Ruggieria is a genus. It is extant.

It was assigned to Pterygocythereidinae by Keen (1975); and to Podocopida by Sepkoski (2002).

Species
R. boldi, R. bullomensis, R. tetraptera
Species lacking formal opinion data
R. frucilla, R. furcilla

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1975Ruggieria Keen
2002Ruggieria 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)
familyTrachyleberididaeSylvester-Bradley 1948
subfamilyPterygocythereidinaeKeij 1957
genusRuggieria

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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†Ruggieria boldi Keen 1975
†Ruggieria bullomensis Keen 1975
†Ruggieria tetraptera Seguenza 1880
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 Oligocene to the top of the Langhian or 33.90000 to 13.82000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Oligocene33.9 - 23.03Sierra Leone R. boldi (209296) R. boldi, R. bullomensis (209297) R. bullomensis (209298)
Aquitanian23.03 - 20.44South Africa (North Cape) R. frucilla, R. sp. (37451)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97South Africa (North Cape) R. furcilla (37487)
Burdigalian20.44 - 15.97Italy (Sardinia) R. micheliniana (93939 93945) R. micheliniana, R. tetraptera (93943 93944) R. tetraptera (93938 93940 93941)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Turkey R. tetraptera (206196 206231)
Langhian15.97 - 13.82South Africa (North Cape) R. furcilla (37494)