Ostracoda - Podocopida - Darwinulidae
Synonyms: Darwinella Brady and Robertson 1872, Polycheles Brady and Robertson 1870
Parent taxon: Darwinulidae according to G. Rosetti and K. Martens 1998
See also Musacchio 1973 and Smith and Xu 1988
Sister taxa: Alicenula, Microdarwinula, Penthesilenula, Vestalenula
Subtaxa: Darwinula contracta Darwinula kwangoensis Darwinula stevensoni
Type: Polycheles stevensoni
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (1 collection), Kenya (10), Mexico (1)
• Miocene of Croatia (4), Turkey (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (1), China (2), India (1), Mongolia (1), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Brazil (1), China (2), Madagascar (1), Portugal (2), the United Kingdom (3)
• Triassic of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (11: New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Permian of China (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (4: New Mexico)
Total: 54 collections including 69 occurrences
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