Bythocytheridae

Bythocytheridae is a family of ostracods belonging to the order Podocopida.[1]

Bythocytheridae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Ostracoda
Order: Podocopida
Family: Bythocytheridae

Taxonomy

Bythocytheridae was named by Sars (1928). It is extant.

It was assigned to Cytheroidea by Hazel and Holden (1971), Crasquin (2008), Babinot and Colin (2011), Sebe et al. (2013), Cabral et al. (2014), Forel (2017), Forel (2017) and Tanaka (2018).

Age Range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Givetian to the top of the Early/Lower Pliocene or 387.70000 to 3.60000 Ma

Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 382.7 Ma

References
  1. "Bythocytheridae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 4 June 2021.

Ecology & Taphonomy
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 2003, Kiessling 2004
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