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Entomoprimitia

Classification

    Phylum:  
Arthropoda
    Subphylum:  
Crustacea (superclass)
    Class:  
Ostracoda
    Order:  
Myodocopida
    Suborder:  
Myodocopina
    Superfamily:  
Entomozoacea?
    Family:  
Entomozoidae
    Subfamily:  
Entomozoinae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Entomoprimitia KUMMEROW, 1939
    Type Species:  
Primitia hattingensis Matern, 1929 (=Cypridina nitida ROEMER, 1850)


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Fossil Image
Fig. 315,1a-e. *E. nitida (ROHIER) (steinkern), U.Dev., Ger.; 1a-e, RV Iat., dors., post., X30 (292). -- Fig. 315,1d,e. E. splendens (WALDscH,rIDT, 1885), U.Dev., Ger.; 1d,e, carapace R, dors., X 15 (292).


Synonyms

Omphalentomis


Geographic Distribution

cosmop.


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Dev.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Lochkovian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
419
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
Dev.
    Ending International Stage:  
Famennian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
359.3


Description

Like Nehdentomis but nuchal furrow reduced to inconspicuous groove or, in many species, to dimple-like depression just anterior to midpoint of dorsal margin, surface striations concentrically arranged round muscle-scar pit.




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