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Parakrithella

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	1029802	https://www.gbif.org/species/1029802
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	24405	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=24405

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Podocopida : Krithidae : Parakrithella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Podocopida : Parakrithella

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

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
class	Ostracoda	Latreille 1802
subclass	Podocopa	Sars 1865
order	Podocopida	Sars 1866
genus	Parakrithella	Hanai 1959

Scientific Name

Parakrithella Hanai, 1959

Name Published In

in Moore (Ed.) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part Q. Arthropoda 3. Crustacea, Ostracoda. Geol. Soc. Am., Univ. Kansas Press, Lawrence

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Parakrithella	genus	belongs to Podocopida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (100%)

First Recorded Appearance

28.4 - 23.0 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwater (based on Ostracoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ostracoda)

Vision

limited (based on Ostracoda)

Diet

detritivore, grazer (based on Podocopida)

Taphonomy

low Mg calcite (based on Ostracoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Parakrithella australis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella cholelithia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella deplanaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella eopacifica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella flavescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella fujimolii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella hanaii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella indica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella javana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella laoma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella lethiersi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella minuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella oblonga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella oblongata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella peregrinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella persbicilla species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella posterotunda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella posterotundra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella posticliva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella pseudadonta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella robusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella shuili species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella simpsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella yongjianga species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Parakrithella zhirmunskyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Neocyprideis Hanai, 1959	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Podocopida : Krithidae : *Neocyprideis*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1959	Parakrithella Hanai
2002	Parakrithella Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Cohen, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

in Moore (Ed.) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology. Part Q. Arthropoda 3. Crustacea, Ostracoda. Geol. Soc. Am., Univ. Kansas Press, Lawrence - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bertels, Alwine, and Dina E. Martínez, 1997: Ostrácodos holocenos de la desembocadura del arroyo napostá grande, sur de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. Revista Española de Micropaleontología, vol. 29, no. 3. 29-69. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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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