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Beecherellidae ✝

Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)249774https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=249774
Rankfamily (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Podocopida : Beecherellidae
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-Bilateria
-EubilateriaAx 1987
-ProtostomiaGrobben 1908
-Ecdysozoa
-Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
subphylumMandibulata
-Pancrustacea
subphylumCrustaceaBrünnich 1772
classOstracodaLatreille 1802
subclassPodocopaSars 1865
orderPodocopidaSars 1866
suborderPodocopinaSars 1866
superfamilyBairdioidea(Sars 1888)
familyBeecherellidaeUlrich 1894
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Beecherellidaefamilybelongs to Bairdiaceastated with evidenceKozur, 1970
Beecherellidaefamilybelongs to Bairdioideastated with evidenceForel, 2017
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)24
First Recorded Appearance468 - 461 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Last Recorded Appearance235 - 232 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Environmenthypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwater (based on Ostracoda)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Ostracoda)
Visionlimited (based on Ostracoda)
Dietdetritivore, grazer (based on Podocopida)
Taphonomylow Mg calcite (based on Ostracoda)
Primary Reference (PBDB)H. Kozur. 1970. Neue Ostracoden-Arten aus dem oberstein Anis des Bakonyhochlandes (Ungarn). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 58:384-428

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Acanthoscapha
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
43461 Ma
Middle Ordovician
235 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Beecheroscapha
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2433 Ma
Silurian
408 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Bulbosohnia
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
3433 Ma
Silurian
433 Ma
Silurian
Gencella
genus
listed (PBDB)1235 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
235 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic
Paraplatyrhomboides
genus
listed (PBDB)2467 Ma
Middle Ordovician
467 Ma
Middle Ordovician
Platyrhomboides
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
7468 Ma
Middle Ordovician
408 Ma
Early/Lower Devonian
Shidelerites
genus
listed (PBDB)1427 Ma
Silurian
427 Ma
Silurian
Tuberoscapha
genus
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
2433 Ma
Silurian
433 Ma
Silurian
Zenkovia
genus
doubtful (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1894Beecherellidae Ulrich
1970Beecherellidae Kozur p. 391
2017Beecherellidae Forel p. 27
2018Beecherellidae Tanaka p. 20

References

Kozur H. (1970) Neue Ostracoden-Arten aus dem oberstein Anis des Bakonyhochlandes (Ungarn), Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 58, 384-428
Forel M. B. (2017) Systematic palaeontology, in Discovery of a long-term refuge for ostracods (Crustacea) after the end-Permian extinction: a unique Carnian (Late Triassic) fauna from the Mersin Mélange, southern Turkey, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17, 9-58
Tanaka G. (2018) Taxonomy, in Early Permian (Cisuralian) ostracods from Japan: characteristic ostracod assemblage from a seamount of the Panthalassic Ocean, Zootaxa 4515, 1-67
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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