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Keratestheria

Classification

    Phylum:  
Arthropoda
    Subphylum:  
Crustacea (superclass)
    Class:  
Branchiopoda
    Subclass:  
Diplostraca
    Order:  
Conchostraca
    Suborder:  
Spinicaudata
    Superfamily:  
Vertexioidea
    Family:  
Ipsiloniidae
    Formal Genus Name and Reference:  
Keratestheria CHERNYSHEV, 1948
    Type Species:  
*K. rugosa, OD


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Fig. 60,2. *K. rugosa, Chitinskaya Oblast (E. of Lake Baikal), right valve, ×4 (161)


Synonyms



Geographic Distribution

USSR(Sib.), Chitinskaya Oblast (E. of Lake Baikal)


Age Range

    Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Jur.
    Beginning International Stage:  
Aalenian
    Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:  
0
    Beginning Date:  
174.7
    Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:  
M.Jur.
    Ending International Stage:  
Callovian
    Fraction Up In Ending Stage:  
100
    Ending Date:  
161.53


Description

Slight incurvature anteriorly below dorsal margin, incurvature of last few growth lines posteriorly forming spine-type projections above dorsal margin with apex directed away from umbonal area




References

Zemp, Franz, Chernyshev, B. I., 1948 Zemp, Franz, Mitchell, G. F., 1957 Zemp, Franz, Mitchell, J., 1927 Zemp, Franz, Novozhilov, Nestor, 1955 Zemp, Franz, -, \& Varentsov, Ig., 1956 Zemp, Franz, Ozawa, Y., \& Watanabe, T., 1923 Zemp, Franz, Schultze, Paul, 1925 Zemp, Franz, Smirnov, S. S., 1940 Zemp, Franz, Størmer, Leif, 1944 Zemp, Franz, Tasch, Paul, n (a), after Ruedemann; (b), from syntype? MCZ (Harvard) 6292; (c), after photograph by A. R. Palmer \author{Lang, Karl} Zemp, Franz, 1948, Copepoda "Notodelphyoida" from the Swedish west coast with an outline on the systematics of the copepods: Arkiv Zoologi Uppsala, v. 40A, no. 14, p. 1-36.


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