Cypridina roxoensis Reed 1929

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 : 45-46

Cypridina roxoensis Reed 1929 (nomen dubium)

Fig. 5 B

Cyridina roxoensis Reed 1929:67 , pl. 4, fig. 13.

Holotype

Monotypic.

Type locality

Rox Rois No. 13 (Horizon A), Brasil, Upper Triassic.

Material

Specimen not examine herein.

Distribution

Upper Triassic, Brasil.

Diagnosis

Elongate with broadly rounded anterior and posterior margins and linear dorsal margin. Short vertical sulcus extends from hinge­line to large central pit. Surface pitted and with low swellings. Length 3–4 mm.

Comparisons

Differs from M. hollandica in having straight dorsal margin.

Remarks

Not a Myodocopina . Resembles Paleozoic Leperditellidae . The senior author enquired about the specimen from the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge, where Reed may have worked, but it was not in the museum records and could not be found in their collections (D. Pemberton & M. Lowe, email, 4/11/2006).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Cypridina sp. Dépêche 1984: A, lateral view, length 0.79 mm. Cypridina roxoensis Reed 1929 (nomen dubium): B, two valves, length 3 – 4 mm.