Ostracoda taxon details
original description
Swanson, K. M. (1979). The marine fauna of New Zealand: ostracods of the Otago Shelf. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir No.</em> 78: 1-56. [details]
additional source
Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Jellinek, T. & Swanson, K.M. (2003). Report on the taxonomy, biogeography and phylogeny of mostly living benthic Ostracoda (Crustacea) from deep-sea samples (Intermediate Water depths) from the Challenger Plateau (Tasman Sea) and Campbell Plateau (Southern Ocean), New Zealand. <em>Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.</em> 558:1-329. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Ayress, M. A. 1995. Late Eocene Ostracoda from the Waihao district, South Canterbury, New Zealand. Journal of Paleontology, 69, 897-921. [details] Available for editors [request]
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Description Carapace large, quadrate, and_ extremely thick. Dorsal margin straight, ventral Marginal convex. Anterior broad and evenly rounded; postenor blunt, almost flat, posterodorsal cardinal angle pronounced (obtuse). Carapace rnamented with a series_ of heavy, irregularly shaped, regularly spaced reticulations. Reticulations occurring around the antenor, anterodorsal and ventral margins generally less clearly defined. Marginal carina prominent. Marginal denticulations present anteroventrally and posteriorly. Subcentral tubercle very weakly developed. lnte_rior . duplicture w ide throughout. Sel vage strong, penpheral ante_norly and posteriorly, subperipheral ventrally. Vestibules present, narrow . Marginal pore canals few , straight and simple. Hingement typical for the genus. [details]
Dimensions Length 0.83 mm; height 0.50 mm; width (left valve) 0. I 9 mm. [details]
Stratigraphy Recent [details]
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