Cypridina infraoolithica Terquem 1885

Kornicker, Louis S., Van, Barry W. M., Bakel, Fraaije, René H. B. & Jagt, John W. M., 2006, Revision of Mesozoic Myodocopina (Ostracoda) and a new genus and species, Mesoleberis hollandica, from the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium and The Netherlands, Zootaxa 1246, pp. 15-54 : 44-45

Cypridina infraoolithica Terquem 1885 (nomen dubium)

Fig. 4 H

Cypridina infraoolithica Terquem 1885:40 , pl. 6: fig. 7a,b.— Dacqué 1934:397 (list).— Coryell 1963:583.

Holotype

None selected, possibly unique specimen.

Type locality

Middle Jurassic ( De Fontoy, France).

Material

Specimen not examined herein.

Distribution

Middle Jurassic, France.

Comparisons

More elongate than M. hollandica .

Remarks

This specimen has an unusual rostrum for a myodocopid. It is also quite small. The senior author sent for the specimen, but The Paris Museum of Natural History could not find the specimen of C. infraoolithica in their collections (Danielle Defaye, email, 8/22/ 05).

Figures

FIGURE 4. Triadocypris tonkinensis (Patte 1926): A, B, left lateral views of carapace of two specimens, length ca. 10 mm).? Triadocypris sp. (Van Veen 1936): C, lateral view of anterior part left valve. Polycope antiqua (Herrig 1981): D, lateral view juvenile carapace, length 0.322 mm; E, lateral view carapace, length 0.294 mm). Polycope tenuireticulata (Herrig 1981): F, lateral view carapace, length 0.420 mm. Cypridina ocevjana Kittl 1918 (nomen dubium): G, left valve, lateral, posterior, and ventral views, length 8.3 mm. Cypridina infraoolithica Terquem 1885 (nomen dubium): H, left lateral and dorsal views of carapace, length 0.64 mm. Size of specimens given if stated in original description.