Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Parent taxon: Beyrichioidea according to S. Crasquin 2008
See also Abushik and Evdokimova 2016, Benson et al. 1961, Liebau 2005, Olempska 2008, Talent 1963 and Tilman 1984
Sister taxa: Craspedobolbinidae, Kloedeniidae, Treposellidae
Subtaxa: Apatobolbina Beyrichia Bingeria Bolbibollia Bolbineossia Bolbiprimitia Cornikloedenia Craspedobolbininae Ctenobolbinella Deloia Dibolbina Dolichoscapha Drepanellina Eobeyrichia Gannibeyrichia Halliella Hibbardia Kloedenia Knoxina Kyamodes Lophokloedenia Malnina Mesomphalus Mooreina Myomphalus Neoulrichia Nodibeyrichia Phlyctiscapha Pseudobeyrichia Savagellites Simplicibeyrichia Treposella Treposellinae Velibeyrichia Welleria Welleriopsis Zygobeyrichia
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (2 collections), Israel (1), Italy (3)
• Carboniferous of China (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Australia (5), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (2), Czechia (1), France (1), Germany (4), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (1), Spain (2), Ukraine (2), United States (34: Alaska, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia)
• Jaani of Estonia (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Italy (2)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (20: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (1), Estonia (2), Germany (4), Ireland (1), Italy (3), Lithuania (5), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (12), Sweden (10), Ukraine (12), the United Kingdom (23), United States (83: Maryland, Michigan and Ohio, New York, West Virginia)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)
• Ordovician of Australia (5), Canada (1: Nunavut), United States (15: Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
Total: 280 collections including 379 occurrences