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Aechmina ✝

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4808317	https://www.gbif.org/species/4808317
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22970	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22970

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Palaeocopida : Aechminidae : Aechmina

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	Palaeocopida	Henningsmoen 1953
suborder	Beyrichicopina	Scott 1961
superfamily	Drepanelloidea	Ulrich and Bassler 1923
family	Aechminidae	Boucek 1936
genus	Aechmina	Jones & Holl 1869

Scientific Name

Aechmina Jones & Holl, 1869

Name Published In

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) 3

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Aechmina	genus	belongs to Aechminidae	stated without evidence	Jones and Holl, 1869
Aechmina	genus	belongs to Aechminidae	stated with evidence	Crasquin-Soleau, 1997
Aechmina	genus	belongs to Palaeocopida	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

478 - 470 Ma
Early/Lower Ordovician

Last Recorded Appearance

290 - 279 Ma
Permian

Environment

hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwater (based on Ostracoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Ostracoda)

Vision

limited (based on Ostracoda)

Diet

suspension feeder (based on Palaeocopida)

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
Aechmina adinobasota species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina bigeneris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina bispinata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina bovina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina brevicornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina carbonifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina choanobasota ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Aechmina clavulus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina crenulata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Aechmina cuspidata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina depressicornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina equilateralis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina eupunctella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina fragilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina geneae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina inequalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina ionensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina longicornis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina longior species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina longispina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina maccormicki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina marginata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina perpendicular species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina punctata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina reticulata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		28	296 Ma Permian	296 Ma Permian
Aechmina richmondensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina serrata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina sesquipetalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina simplex species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina spicaferella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina spinoterminata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Aechmina truncata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1869	Aechmina Jones and Holl
1961	Aechmina Benson et al.
1997	Aechmina Crasquin-Soleau p. 44
2002	Aechmina Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

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

Crasquin-Soleau S. (1997) First upper Paleozoic ostracodes from British Columbia (Canada): Harper Ranch Group, Palaeontographica Abteilung A 244 1-3, 37-84

Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (4) 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Museum Victoria KEmu database (Oct 2006) - 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

Sepkowski (2002) - 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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