''Carbonita'' is an
extinct genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of nonmarine
ostracod
Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp. Some 70,000 species (only 13,000 of which are extant) have been identified, grouped into several orders. They are small crustaceans, typi ...
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group can ...
s that lived during the
Carboniferous period.
Species
The genus contains four species:
*''
Carbonita evelinae''
(Jones, 1870)
*''
Carbonita pungens''
(Jones & Kirkby, 1867)
*''
Carbonita ovata''
Retrum & Kaesler, 2005
*''
Carbonita triangulata''
Retrum & Kaesler, 2005
References
*Carboniferous Ostracoda, the Genus Carbonita Strand. FW Anderson, 1970
* Quantitative analysis of dimorphism in Carbonita humilis (Jones and Kirkby). MJM Bless, JE Pollard, American Bulletin of Paleontology, 1975
Prehistoric ostracod genera
Podocopida genera
Carbonitidae
Carboniferous crustaceans
Fossils of Russia
Fossils of the United States
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