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Kirkbya bendensis

Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae

Taxonomy
Kirkbya bendensis was named by Harlton (1933). Its type specimen is USNM 85548 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Johns Valley Shale, Ouachita Mountains loc. P-17, which is in a Pennsylvanian marine shale in the Johns Valley Formation of Oklahoma.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
K. ingeniosa, K. laciniata, K. scaphula, K. voluta, K. waltheri

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1933Kirkbya bendensis Harlton p. 22 figs. pl. 6, fig. 2

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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
superfamilyKirkbyoidea(Ulrich and Bassler 1906)
familyKirkbyidaeUlrich and Bassler 1906
genusKirkbya
speciesbendensis

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.

†Kirkbya bendensis Harlton 1933
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Diagnosis
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