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Concavicarida ✝
Source Data |
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Rank | order (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Thylacocephala : Concavicarida | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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Opinions (PBDB) |
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Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxon Size (PBDB) | 21 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
First Recorded Appearance | 439 - 433 Ma Silurian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Recorded Appearance | 165 - 161 Ma Jurassic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Motility | actively mobile (based on Thylacocephala) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vision | well-developed (based on Thylacocephala) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diet | omnivore (based on Thylacocephala) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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Concavicarididae ✝ family | listed (PBDB) | 3 | 251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | 251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | |
Microcarididae ✝ family | listed (PBDB) | 6 | 251 Ma Early/Lower Triassic | 216 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | |
Concavicaris ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | 5 | 359 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | 306 Ma Carboniferous | |
Dollocaris ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | 1 | 165 Ma Middle Jurassic | 165 Ma Middle Jurassic | |
Harrycaris ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) | ||||
Pseuderichthus ✝ genus | listed (PBDB) |
Synonymy List
Year | Name and Author |
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1983 | Concavicarida Briggs and Rolfe |
2002 | Concavicarida Sepkoski, Jr. |
2015 | Concavicarida Ehiro and Kato p. 272 |
2019 | Concavicarida Charbonnier p. 38 |
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!