Amphissites

{{Short description|Extinct genus of seed shrimp}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Devonian|Permian|Devonian-Permian}}

| image = Amphissites costatus Roth.png

| image_caption = Sketch of valve of Amphissites costatus Roth

| taxon = Amphissites

| authority = Girty, 1910G. H. Girty. 1910. New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville shale of Arkansas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20(3):189-238

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Amphissites is an extinct genus of ostracod (seed shrimp) belonging to the suborder Beyrichicopina (ornamented beyrichiocopids{{cite journal |last1=Stocker |first1=C. P. |last2=Komatsu |first2=T. |last3=Tanaka |first3=G. |last4=Williams |first4=M. |last5=Siveter |first5=D. J. |last6=Bennett |first6=C. E. |last7=Wallis |first7=S. |last8=Oji |first8=T. |last9=Maekawa |first9=T. |last10=Okura |first10=M. |last11=Vandenbroucke |first11=T. R. A. |title=Carboniferous ostracods from central Honshu, Japan |journal=Geological Magazine |date=January 2018 |volume=155 |issue=1 |pages=98–108 |doi=10.1017/S0016756816000844|s2cid=132643646 }}) and family Amphissitinae.{{cite journal |last1=Sohn |first1=I.G. |title=Ostracoda from the Permian of the Glass Mountains, Texas |journal=U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper |date=1954 |volume=264-A |doi=10.3133/pp264A|doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Tanaka |first1=Gengo |last2=Miyake |first2=Yukio |last3=Ono |first3=Teruo |last4=Yuan |first4=Aihua |last5=Ichida |first5=Masahiro |last6=Maeda |first6=Haruyoshi |last7=Crasquin |first7=Sylvie |title=Early Permian (Cisuralian) ostracods from Japan: characteristic ostracod assemblage from a seamount of the Panthalassic Ocean |journal=Zootaxa |date=12 November 2018 |volume=4515 |issue=1 |pages=1–67 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4515.1.1|pmid=30486187 |s2cid=54118602 }} Species belonging to the genus lived from the Devonian{{cite journal |first1=G. |last1=Becker |first2=S.Q. |last2=Wang |year=1992 |title=Kirkbyacea and Bairdiacea (Ostracoda) from the Palaeozoic of China |journal=Palaeontographica Abteilung A |volume=224 |number=1–54}} to the Permian{{cite journal |first1=S. |last1=Crasquin-Soleau |first2=M.J. |last2=Orchard |year=1994 |title=Upper Paleozoic ostracodes of the Harper Ranch beds (south-central British Columbia, Canada) |journal=Micropaleontology |volume=40 |number=3 |pages=242–254 |doi=10.2307/1485818 |jstor=1485818}} in Europe,{{cite journal |first1=H.W.J. |last1=Amerom |first2=M.J.M. |last2=Bless |first3=C.F. |last3=Winkler Prins |year=1970 |title=Some paleontological and stratigraphical aspects of the Upper Carboniferous Sama Formation (Asturias, Spain) |journal=Mededelingen Rijks Geologische Dienst, Nieuwe Serie |volume=21 |pages=9–79}}{{cite journal |first1=B. |last1=Fohrer |year=1997 |title=Ostracoden aus dem Oberkarbon und Unterperm der Karnischen Alpen (Osterreich): systematik, biostratigraphie und palokologie |journal=Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt |volume=140 |number=2 |pages=99–191}} North America, Australia, and east Asia.{{cite journal |first1=K. |last1=Ishizaki |year=1964 |title=Middle Permian ostracodes from the Iwaizaki Limestone, northeast Japan |journal=Science Reports of the Tohoku University. Second Series, Geology |volume=36 |pages=139–160 |url=https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=11975&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1 |access-date=10 February 2022}} The genus were likely deposit-feeders, and may have survived briefly into the Triassic.{{cite journal |first1=Marie-Béatrice |last1=Forel |first2=Antoine |last2=Bercovici |first3=Jianxin |last3=Yu |title=Ostracods after the end-Permian extinction in South China: insights into non-microbial survival |journal= Micropaleontology |year=2020 |volume=66 |number=5 |pages=377–396 |doi=10.47894/mpal.66.5.02 |s2cid=247811227 |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03098322}}