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Acanthoscapha ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4808431	https://www.gbif.org/species/4808431
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	23848	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=23848

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Podocopida : Beecherellidae : Acanthoscapha

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	Beecherellidae	Ulrich 1894
genus	Acanthoscapha	Ulrich & Bassler 1923

Scientific Name

Acanthoscapha Ulrich & Bassler, 1923

Name Published In

Ulrich, E.O. and Bassler, R.S. (1923a) Paleozoic Ostracoda: their morphology, classification and occurence. Maryland Geological Survey, 271–391.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Acanthoscapha	genus	belongs to Beecherellidae	stated with evidence	Kozur, 1970
Acanthoscapha	genus	belongs to Podocopida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Acanthoscapha	genus	belongs to Beecherellidae	stated with evidence	Forel, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

461 - 450 Ma
Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

235 - 232 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
Acanthoscapha angularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acanthoscapha blessi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	260 Ma Permian	260 Ma Permian
Acanthoscapha blumenstengeli ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Acanthoscapha bogschi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		12	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Acanthoscapha champlainensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acanthoscapha lenticulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acanthoscapha mersinella ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic	235 Ma Late/Upper Triassic
Acanthoscapha navicula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acanthoscapha pentagonalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Acanthoscapha takacsae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	315 Ma Carboniferous	315 Ma Carboniferous
Acanthoscapha veghae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		8	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic
Acanthoscapha veghea ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic	247 Ma Early/Lower Triassic

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Alanella Boucek, 1936	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Podocopida : Beecherellidae : *Alanella*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1970	Acanthoscapha Kozur p. 391
1992	Acanthoscapha Becker and Wang p. 39
2002	Acanthoscapha Sepkoski, Jr.
2017	Acanthoscapha Forel p. 27
2018	Acanthoscapha Tanaka p. 20

References

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

Kozur H. (1970) Neue Ostracoden-Arten aus dem oberstein Anis des Bakonyhochlandes (Ungarn), Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck 58, 384-428

Becker G., Wang S. Q. (1992) Kirkbyacea and Bairdiacea (Ostracoda) from the Palaeozoic of China, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 224, 1-54

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

GBIF/Yale University Peabody Museum: Peabody Invertebrate Paleontology DiGIR Service - 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

Ulrich, E.O. and Bassler, R.S. (1923a) Paleozoic Ostracoda: their morphology, classification and occurence. Maryland Geological Survey, 271–391. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bassler, R. S.; Kellett, B. (1934). Bibliographic Index of Paleozoic Ostracoda. Geological Society of America Special Papers. 1. - via World Register of Marine Species

Maryland Geol. Surv., Silurian - 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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