Amphissites

Amphissites is an extinct genus of ostracod (seed shrimp) belonging to the suborder Beyrichicopina (ornamented beyrichiocopids^[2]) and family Amphissitinae.^[3][4] Species belonging to the genus lived from the Devonian^[5] to the Permian^[6] in Europe,^[7][8] North America,^[9] Australia,^[10] and east Asia.^[11][12] The genus were likely deposit-feeders, and may have survived briefly into the Triassic.^[13]

Amphissites Temporal range: Devonian-Permian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Sketch of valve of Amphissites costatus Roth
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Ostracoda
Order:	Palaeocopida
Suborder:	†Beyrichicopina
Family:	†Amphissitinae
Genus:	†Amphissites Girty, 1910[1]

Species

• Amphissites bushi Harlton 1933^[9]
• Amphissites carinodus Cooper 1957^[14]
• Amphissites centronotus Ulrich and Bassler 1906^[12][10]
• Amphissites dattonensis Harlton 1927^[15]
• Amphissites gifuensis Tanaka and Yuan 2012^[16]
• Amphissites knighti Sohn 1954^[3]
• Amphissites marginiferus Roth 1929^[9]
• Amphissites miseri Harlton 1933^[9]
• Amphissites neocentronotus Becker and Wang 1992^[17]
• Amphissites nodosus Roth 1929^[9]
• Amphissites rugosus Girty 1910^[18]
• Amphissites sinensis Hou 1954^[19]
• Amphissites sosioensis Kozur 1991^[20]
• Amphissites subcentronotus Hou 1954^[19]
• Amphissites wapanuckensis Harlton 1929^[9]