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Sulcella ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4808286	https://www.gbif.org/species/4808286
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	23818	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=23818

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Podocopida : Cavellinidae : Sulcella

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Platycopida : Cavellinidae : Sulcella

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	Platycopida	Sars 1866
suborder	Platycopina	Sars 1866
superfamily	Cavellinoidea	Egorov 1950
family	Cavellinidae	Egorov 1950
genus	Sulcella	Coryell & Sample 1932

Scientific Name

Sulcella Coryell & Sample, 1932

Name Published In

Coryell, H N; Sample, C H. (1932). Pennsylvanian Ostracoda. A study of the ostracoda fauna of the East Mountain Shale, Mineral Wells Formation, Mineral Wells, Texas. American Midland Naturalist, 13 (5), 245-281

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Sulcella	genus	belongs to Cavellinidae	stated with evidence	Crasquin-Soleau, 1999
Sulcella	genus	belongs to Metacopida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Sulcella	genus	belongs to Cavellinidae	stated with evidence	Crasquin, 2008
Sulcella	genus	belongs to Cavellinidae	stated without evidence	Zazzali et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

388 - 383 Ma
Devonian

Last Recorded Appearance

252 - 251 Ma
Phanerozoic

Environment

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

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ostracoda)

Vision

blind (based on Platycopida)

Diet

detritivore, suspension feeder (based on Platycopida)

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)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Sulcella arabica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	269 Ma Permian	269 Ma Permian
Sulcella decora species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sulcella edmistoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sulcella huecoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sulcella langdaiaformis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Sulcella mesopermiana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	265 Ma Permian	252 Ma Permian
Sulcella rotunda species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Sulcella sulcata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	304 Ma Carboniferous	254 Ma Permian
Sulcella warthini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1999	Sulcella Crasquin-Soleau p. 172
2002	Sulcella Sepkoski, Jr.
2008	Sulcella Crasquin p. 255
2015	Sulcella Zazzali et al. p. 306

References

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

Crasquin-Soleau S. (1999) Systematic paleontology, in First Permian Ostracode Fauna from the Arabian Plate (Khuff Formation, Sultanate of Oman), Micropaleontology 45, 163-182

Crasquin S. (2008) Ostracod paleontology, in Ostracods across the Permian-Triassic boundary in western Tethys: the Bulla parastratotype (southern Alps, Italy), Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 114 2, 233-262

Zazzali S., Crasquin S., et al (2015) Biodiversity across the Guadalupian-Lopingian Boundary: first results on the ostracod (Crustacea) fauna, Chaotian section (Sichuan Province, South China), Geodiversitas 37 3, 283-313 doi:10.5252/g2015n3a1

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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

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

Amer. Midl. Nat., 13 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkowski (2002) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

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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