Article
Reconciling diagnostic traits in living and fossil taxa: The taxonomy and evolution of the genus Microceratina (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cytheruridae).
Zootaxa - 21 Feb 2023
Danielopol Dan L, Cabral M Cristina, Horne David J, Namiotko Tadeusz, Lord Alan R
Abstract excerpt
The original diagnosis of the genus Microceratina Swanson is re-examined with the aim of elucidating the evolutionary history of this living and fossil genus. The different systematic placements of this genus in one of three alternative suprageneric taxa, family Bythocytheridae Sars, family Cytheruridae G.W. Müller (subfamily Eucytherurinae Puri, emend. Maddocks & Steineck) and/or family Loxoconchidae Sars are...
Topics
- Animals
- Phylogeny
- Fossils
- Crustacea
- Microscopy
- Phenotype
