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Ketmeniidae
Description | Kazacharthra is an extinct order of branchiopod crustaceans that appear to be closely related to the living order Notostraca (the tadpole shrimp). Kazacharthrans lived in marshes and ponds in the Upper Triassic of Western China and Mongolia, and in Lower Jurassic Kazakhstan (where their fossils were first found, hence the name). It is presumed that the kazacharthrids lived much like their living relatives, in that they were opportunistic omnivores that fed on any available food source, from bacterial biofilms to detritus to smaller animals that could be overpowered (i.e., fairy shrimp, small or recently hatched amphibian larvae, smaller members of the same species, etc.). From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketmeniidae, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | family | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Branchiopoda : Ketmeniidae | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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Scientific Name | Ketmeniidae | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketmeniidae |
Obsolete Names
Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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Paratriopsidae | GBIF | family | Animalia : Arthropoda : Branchiopoda : Paratriopsidae |
References
Benton, M.J. (ed). (1993). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London, 845 pp. - 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!