Amphissites
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| Amphissites Temporal range: | |
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| Sketch of valve of Amphissites costatus Roth | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Ostracoda |
| Order: | Palaeocopida |
| Suborder: | †Beyrichicopina |
| Family: | †Amphissitinae |
| Genus: | †Amphissites Girty, 1910[1] |
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]
