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Samarella viscusforma

Ostracoda - Platycopida - Paraparchitidae

Taxonomy
Samarella viscusforma was named by Chitnarin (2012). Its type specimen is SUT-09-1394, a carapace, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is 07PB04-2, Nong Phai, Phetchabun, which is in an Asselian/Sakmarian carbonate wackestone in the Pha Nok Khao Formation of Thailand.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
S. crassa, S. minuta

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2012Samarella viscusforma Chitnarin p. 818 figs. 13A-E, 15
2015Samarella viscusforma Zazzali et al. p. 306 figs. 16M, N

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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
orderPlatycopidaSars 1866
suborderKloedenellocopinaScott 1961
superfamilyParaparchitoideaScott 1959
familyParaparchitidaeScott 1959
genusSamarella
speciesviscusforma

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.

†Samarella viscusforma Chitnarin 2012
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
partNmeanminimummaximummedians.d.
valve height50.4300.3300.5100.4400.067

Composition: low Mg calcitec
Environment: hypersaline, marine, brackish, freshwaterc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: detritivoreo
Diet 2: suspension feedero
Vision: blindo
Created: 2010-02-05 01:56:31
Modified: 2011-06-14 02:59:51
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Jell and Adrain 2002, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Sakmarian to the top of the Capitanian or 293.52000 to 259.51000 Ma

Collections (23 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Asselian - Sakmarian298.9 - 290.1Thailand Samarella viscusforma (type locality: 137899 137900)
Sakmarian293.52 - 290.1Thailand Samarella viscusforma (137893)
Kungurian279.3 - 272.3Thailand Samarella viscusforma (137913 137925)
Wordian266.9 - 264.28Thailand Samarella viscusforma (137915 137916 137917 137923 137924)
Capitanian264.28 - 259.51China (Sichuan) Samarella viscusforma (189439 189441 189442 189444 189465)
Wuchiapingian259.9 - 254.17China (Sichuan) Samarella viscusforma (189472 189473 189475 189476 189480 189483 189489 189490)