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Bradoriida ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	90405	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=90405

Rank

order (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Bradoriida

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
class	Bradoriida

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Bradoriida	order	belongs to Bradoriamorphes	stated with evidence	Gravestock et al., 2001
Bradoriida	order	belongs to Arthropoda	stated with evidence	Skovsted et al., 2006
Bradoriida	order	belongs to Crustacea	stated without evidence	Landing et al., 2008

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

541 - 520 Ma
Cambrian

Last Recorded Appearance

41.3 - 38.0 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Bradoriida)

Vision

blind (based on Bradoriida)

Diet

omnivore (based on Bradoriida)

Ecospace Comments

Data from Hou et al (2005), personal opinion (Lin, pers. comm.).

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. B. Skovsted. 2006. Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland. Journal of Paleontology 80(6):1087-1112

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Beyrichonidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	2	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Bradoriidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	6	520 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Comptalutidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	3	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Hipponicharionidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	17	520 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Indianidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	15	516 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Svealutidae ✝ family	listed (PBDB)	57	541 Ma Cambrian	485 Ma Cambrian
Acanthomeridion ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	10	520 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Antihipponicharion ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Auriculatella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Bajiella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Changshabaella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Combinivalvula ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	11	541 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Comptaluta ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	14	520 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Dabashanella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	520 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Dahaiella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Epactridion ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	520 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Guangyuanella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Hanchiangella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	520 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Hanchungella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Houlongdongella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Indota ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	516 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Konicekion ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Kunmingella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	52	520 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Kunyangella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	12	520 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Leshanella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Luella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Malongella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	520 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Meishucunella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Monasterium ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	513 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Nanchengella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	520 Ma Cambrian	520 Ma Cambrian
Neokunmingella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	530 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Ophiosema ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Ovaluta ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Parakunmingella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Paraphaseolella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Phaseolella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Pseudokunmingella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Shensiella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Sinskolutella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	15	530 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Songlinella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Spinospitella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	2	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Sunella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	4	520 Ma Cambrian	41.3 Ma Eocene
Tropidiana ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Tsunyiella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	3	520 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Wuchiapingella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Wutingella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Yakutingella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	1	516 Ma Cambrian	516 Ma Cambrian
Yaoyingella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Yeshanella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Zepaera ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)	7	520 Ma Cambrian	513 Ma Cambrian
Zhenpingella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Zhijinella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)
Zhongbaoella ✝ genus	listed (PBDB)

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1899	Archaeocopida Sylvester-Bradley
1961	Archaeocopida Benson et al. p. 100
1961	Archaeocopida Sylvester-Bradley
1992	Archaeocopida Bengtson p. 1022
2001	Bradoriida Gravestock et al. p. 210
2005	Bradoriid Hu p. 188
2006	Bradoriida Skovsted et al. p. 16
2008	Bradoriida Alvarez et al. p. 650
2008	Bradoriida Landing et al. p. 899

References

Skovsted C. B. (2006) Small shelly fauna from the upper Lower Cambrian Bastion and Ella Island Formations, North-East Greenland, Journal of Paleontology 80 6, 1087-1112

Benson R. H., Berdan J. M., et al (1961) Part Q, Arthropoda: Crustacea: Ostracoda, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Q 3, 1-432

Bengtson S. (1992) Proterozoic and earliest Cambrian skeletal metazoans, The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study, 1017-1034

Gravestock D. I., Alexander E. M., et al (2001) The Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Stansbury Basin, South Australia, Russian Academy of Sciences, Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute 282, 1-344

Hu S.-X. (2005) Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota from Eastern Yunnan, China, Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen 7, 1-197

Skovsted C. B., Brock G. A., et al (2006) Bivalved arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Mernmerna Formation, Arrowie Basin, South Australia, and their implications for identification of Cambrian ‘small shelly fossils’, Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 32, 7-41

Alvarez M. E. D., Gozalo R., et al (2008) Bradoriid arthropods from the lower–middle Cambrian of Scania, Sweden, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53 4, 647-656

Landing E., Johnson S. C., et al (2008) Faunas and Cambrian volcanism on the Avalonian marginal platform, southern New Brunswick, Journal of Paleontology 82 5, 884-905

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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