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Carbonita ✝
| Description | Carbonita is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 10,145 in a total area of 1,454 km². The elevation of the town center is 751 meters. It is part of the IBGE statistical meso-region of Jequitinhonha and the micro-region of Capelinha. It became a municipality in 1963. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonita, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Ostracoda : Carbonita | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Carbonita Strand, 1928 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Name Published In | Arch. Naturgesch., 92, 1926, A8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opinions (PBDB) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 365 - 361 Ma Late/Upper Devonian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 296 - 290 Ma Permian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | hypersaline,marine,brackish,freshwater (based on Ostracoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Ostracoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | limited (based on Ostracoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | low Mg calcite (based on Ostracoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | B. Kellett. 1935. Ostracodes of the Upper Pennsylvanian and the Lower Permian strata of Kanss: III. Bairdiidae (concluded), Cytherellidae, Cypridinidae, Entomoconchidae, Cytheridae, and Cypridae. Journal of Paleontology 9(2):132-166 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonita |
Fossil Distribution
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Bythocypris tumidus species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Carbonita claripunctata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Carbonita evlinae species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Carbonita inflata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Carbonita pungens species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Carbonita tumida ✝ species | listed (PBDB) | 8 | 307 Ma Carboniferous | 296 Ma Permian | |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1928 | Carbonita Strand |
| 1935 | Carbonita Kellett p. 159 |
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!
