Petrobrasia Krommelbein 1965
- Dataset
- 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
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Ostracoda
- order
- Podocopida
- family
- Cyprididae
- genus
- Petrobrasia
description
Dimensions: Holotype, length 0.88 mm, height 0.52 mm, width 0.34 mm.
description
Fig. 11, 8 a – c 1971 Petrobrasia? badajosensis n. sp. — Krömmelbein & Weber, p. 39, pl. 7, fig. 28.
diagnosis
Diagnosis: A species placed only questionably in Petrobrasia with the following peculiarities: the carapace in lateral view is stocky with a wide, high-positioned anterior margin. Maximum carapace height approximately in the middle. Posterior section of the dorsal margin is long and slopes away fairly steeply.
materials_examined
Holotype: Carapace, BfB 7800. Paratypes: Not deposited.