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Crustacea

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	82629	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=82629

Rank

subphylum (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Crustacea

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772

Common Name

crustacean

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Crustacea	class	belongs to Animalia	stated without evidence	Latreille, 1802
Crustacea	subphylum	belongs to Arthropoda	stated without evidence	Martin, 1904
Crustacea	class	belongs to Branchiata	stated without evidence	Mason, 1935
Crustacea	class	belongs to Arthropoda	stated without evidence	Riccio, 1952
Crustacea	unranked clade	belongs to Arthropoda	implied	Martens et al., 2005
Crustacea	subphylum	belongs to Pancrustacea	stated without evidence	Nielsen, 2012

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

11,817

Extant Size (PBDB)

3,021 (26%)

First Recorded Appearance

541 - 516 Ma
Cambrian

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

W. Kiessling. 2003. Personal data.

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Branchiopoda class	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Branchiopod	164	520 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Cephalocarida class	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	501 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Copepoda class	listed (PBDB)	Copepod	1	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Malacostraca class	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6,175	530 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Maxillopoda class	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1,054	433 Ma Silurian	0 Ma Extant
Ostracoda class	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Ostracod	26,236	541 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Remipedia class	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	331 Ma Carboniferous	0 Ma Extant
Malacostraca subclass	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Bradoriamorphes superorder	listed (PBDB)
Canadaspidida ✝ order	listed (PBDB)		75	520 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Cladocera order	listed (PBDB)	Water Flea	4	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Protocaridida ✝ order	listed (PBDB)		33	520 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Waptiida ✝ order	listed (PBDB)		62	520 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Apudites ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Maja genus	listed (PBDB)		9	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Nuculina genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Oelandocaris ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)		3	501 Ma Cambrian	501 Ma Cambrian
Siphonocetes genus	listed (PBDB)				0 Ma Extant
Eucrustacea unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		32	513 Ma Cambrian	0 Ma Extant
Somatopoda unranked clade	listed (PBDB)		5	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1772	Crustacea Brünnich
1802	Crustacea Latreille p. 13
1904	Crustacea Martin p. 94
1933	Crustacea Phleger, Jr. p. 11
1935	Crustacea Mason p. 102
1952	Crustacea Riccio p. 29
2005	Crustacea Martens et al.
2012	Crustacea Nielsen p. 245

References

Kiessling W. (2003) Personal data

Latreille P. A. , Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes, Tome Troisième, 1-467

Martin G. C. (1904) Malacostraca, Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text, 94

Phleger, Jr. F. B. (1933) Notes on certain Ordovician faunas of the Inyo Mountains, California, Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 32 1, 1-21

Mason J. F. (1935) Fauna of the Cambrian Cadiz Formation, Marble Mountains, California, Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 34 2, 97-120

Riccio J. F. (1952) The Lower Cambrian Olenellidae of the southern Marble Mountains, California, Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 51 2, 25-49

Martens T., Berman D. S., et al (2005) The Bromacker Quarry - the Most Important Locality of Lower Permian Terrestrial Vertebrate Fossils Outside of North America, The Nonmarine Permian. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 30, 214-215

Nielsen C. (2012) Animal Evolution : Interrelationships of the Living Phyla, 1-402

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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