Carbonita (crustacean)

Carbonita; Temporal range: Carboniferous - Early Permian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Ostracoda
Order:	Podocopida
Family:	Carbonitidae
Genus:	Carbonita; Strand, 1928
Synonyms
	Carbonia Jones, 1870

Carbonita is an extinct genus of nonmarine ostracod crustaceans that lived during the Carboniferous period.

Species

The genus contains four species:^[1]

^ a b Julie B. Retrum & Roger L. Kaesler (2005). "Early Permian Carbonitidae (Ostracoda): ontogeny, affinity, environment and systematics" (PDF). Journal of Micropalaeontology. 24 (2): 179–190. doi:10.1144/jm.24.2.179. S2CID 46953008.

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

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