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Metacypris Brady & Robertson 1870

Description

“ Metacypris ” pintoi Krömmelbein, 1965

Fig. 8, 5a–c

1965a “ Metacypris ” pintoi n. sp.—Krömmelbein, p. 199–200, pl. 12, fig. 7.

Diagnosis: A small “ Metacypris ” species with the following peculiarities: posterior cardinal angle clearly defined. Median sulcus fairly narrow, deep, more or less straight, extending far down to over the valve centre. Anterior sulcus short, diagonal. Between the two sulci a flat, more or less longish node-like swelling; a similar swelling, mostly more weakly defined and more rounded, in front of the anterior sulcus. Carapace surface with pore dimples joined together in a mesh-like pattern in the central valve area; with pore dimples arranged in a line against the free valve margins, and separated by narrow little ridges, parallel to the end margins and the ventral margin.

Holotype: Carapace, SMF Xe 5371.

Paratypes: 2 Left valves, SMF Xe 5372.

Dimension: Holotype, length 0.54mm.

Notes

Published as part of Bate, Raymond H., Horne, David J., Horne, Sarah E., Douglas, Lyndsey, Miller, Giles & Lord, Alan R., 2022, Non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea) of the Early Cretaceous ' Pre-Salt' sediments of Brazil: An illustrated catalogue of the type specimens of Wicher, Krömmelbein, Krömmelbein & Weber, and Bate, pp. 1-84 in Zootaxa 5098 (1) on pages 35-36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5098.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6036685

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SMF
Scientific name authorship
Brady & Robertson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Podocopida
Family
Limnocytheridae
Genus
Metacypris
Taxon rank
genus
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Metacypris Brady, 1870 sec. Bate, Horne, Horne, Douglas, Miller & Lord, 2022