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Myra
| Description | Myra (Ancient Greek: Μύρα, Mýra) was an ancient Greek, then Roman Greek, then Byzantine Greek, then Ottoman Greek town in Lycia, which became the small Turkish town of Kale, renamed Demre in 2005, in the present-day Antalya Province of Turkey. In 1923 its Greek inhabitants had been required to leave by the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, at which time its church was finally abandoned. It was founded on the river Myros (Ancient Greek: Μύρος; Turkish: Demre Çay), in the fertile alluvial plain between Alaca Dağ, the Massikytos range and the Aegean Sea. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Rank | genus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Leucosiidae : Myra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Myra Leach, 1817 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Leach, William E. 1817. The zoological miscellany: being descriptions of new, or interesting animals. E. Nodder & Son, London. Vol. 3: i-v; 1-151; pls. 121-150. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 5 (36%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 20.4 - 16.0 Ma Miocene | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Malacostraca) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | well-developed (based on Malacostraca) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | carnivore (based on Decapoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | chitin (based on Malacostraca) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | テナガコブシ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myra |
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Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Myra affinis species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Myra amoena ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Myra arachnoides ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Myra australis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra biconica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra brevimana species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra brevisulcata ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Myra celeris species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 0 Ma Extant | |||
| Myra currax species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra curtimana species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra digitata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra elegans species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra emarginata ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Myra eudactylus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra fijiensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 23.0 Ma Miocene | 23.0 Ma Miocene | |
| Myra fugax species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 4 | 11.6 Ma Miocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Myra grandis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra hainanica species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra intermedia species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra mammillaris species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 0.01 Ma Pleistocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Myra paenitensis ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
| Myra pernix species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra subcarinata ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 8 | 11.6 Ma Miocene | 5.33 Ma Miocene | |
| Myra subgranulata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra trispinosa ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 3 | 20.4 Ma Miocene | 5.33 Ma Miocene | |
| Myra tumidospina species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Myra wenjii ✝ species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | ||||
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1817 | Myra Leach |
| 1879 | Myra Martin p. 130 |
| 2002 | Myra Sepkoski, Jr. |
| 2003 | Myra Collins et al. p. 205 |
| 2010 | Myra Schweitzer et al. |
References
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!
