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Tricornina

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Tricorninidae

Taxonomy
Tricornina is a genus. It is not extant. It is the type genus of Tricornidae.

It was assigned to Primitiidae by Boucek (1936); to Beecherellidae by Henningsmoen (1953); to Podocopida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Tricorninidae by Schallreuter et al. (2006).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1936Tricornina Boucek
1953Tricornina Henningsmoen
2002Tricornina Sepkoski
2006Tricornina Schallreuter et al. p. 311

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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
suborderCytherocopinaGründel 1967
infraorderArchaeocytherininaLiebau 1991
superfamilyTricorninoideaBlumenstengel 1965
familyTricorninidae(Blumenstengel 1965)
genusTricornina

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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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: base of the Lochkovian to the top of the Tournaisian or 419.20000 to 346.70000 Ma

Collections (15 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Lochkovian419.2 - 410.8USA (New York) T. sp. (24815)
Lochkovian419.2 - 410.8Italy (Sardinia) T. jahnkei (26161)
Lochkovian419.2 - 410.8Austria T. sp. (26205)
Lochkovian419.2 - 410.8Russian Federation (Sverdlovskaya Oblast) T. uralica (81749)
Pragian410.8 - 407.6Austria T. sp. (26204)
Pragian410.8 - 407.6Russian Federation (Sverdlovskaya Oblast) T. uralica (81750)
Pragian - Early/Lower Emsian410.8 - 402.5Russian Federation (Sverdlovskaya Oblast) T. uralica (81797)
Early/Lower Emsian409.1 - 402.5Russian Federation T. robusticerata (35712 35713)
Late/Upper Emsian402.5 - 391.9Russian Federation T. robusticerata (35715 35716 35717 35718 35719)
Tournaisian358.9 - 346.7Germany T. communis (67214)