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Pseudobythocypris ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4808526	https://www.gbif.org/species/4808526
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	23804	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=23804

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Podocopida : Bairdiocyprididae : Pseudobythocypris

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
suborder	Podocopina	Sars 1866
superfamily	Bairdioidea	(Sars 1888)
family	Bairdiocyprididae	Shaver 1961
genus	Pseudobythocypris	Shaver 1958

Scientific Name

Pseudobythocypris Shaver, 1958

Name Published In

Am. Midl. Nat. 59

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pseudobythocypris	genus	belongs to Bairdiocypridinae	stated with evidence	Kozur, 1985
Pseudobythocypris	genus	belongs to Healdiidae	stated with evidence	Sohn, 1987
Pseudobythocypris	genus	belongs to Metacopida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Pseudobythocypris	genus	belongs to Bairdiocyprididae	stated with evidence	Yuan and Crasquin-Soleau, 2007

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

359 - 354 Ma
Paleozoic

Last Recorded Appearance

237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic

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)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Bythocypris pediformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Bythocypris sublunata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris centralis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		11	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudobythocypris changx species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris contracta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris croneisi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris disparilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris elongata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris enigmatica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris hockingi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		15	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Pseudobythocypris kellettae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris lordi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Pseudobythocypris lowelli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris oblongata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris palopintoensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris pecki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris pediformis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		26	307 Ma Carboniferous	290 Ma Permian
Pseudobythocypris portica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris procera ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		12	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudobythocypris scotti species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris semicirculus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris sublunata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		10	254 Ma Permian	254 Ma Permian
Pseudobythocypris subreniformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris suprapermiana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Pseudobythocypris texensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pseudobythocypris tomlinsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1958	Pseudobythocypris Shaver
1985	Pseudobythocypris Kozur p. 88
1987	Pseudobythocypris Sohn p. C14
2002	Pseudobythocypris Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Pseudobythocypris Yuan and Crasquin-Soleau p. 182

References

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

Kozur H. (1985) Neue Ostracoden-Arten aus dem oberen Mittelkarbon (höheres Moskovian), mittel- und Oberperm des Bükk-Gebirges (N-Ungarn), Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck S2, 1-145

Sohn I. G. (1987) Middle and Upper Triassic Marine Ostracoda from the Shublik Formation, Northeastern Alaska, United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1664, C1-C21

Yuan A. H., Crasquin-Soleau S. (2007) Systematic Descriptions, in Latest Permian deep-water ostracods from southwestern Guangxi, south China, Journal of Micropalaeontology 26, 169-191

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

Am. Midl. Nat. 59 - 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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