†family Glyptopleuridae Girty 1910 (ostracod)
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Glyptopleuridae
Full reference: G. 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
Parent taxon: Glyptopleuroidea according to A. Liebau 2005
See also Girty 1910
Sister taxa: Barychilinidae, Perprimitiidae
Subtaxa: Svantovites
Type: Glyptopleura
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Celechovice na Hane, Horizon 9 (Devonian of Czechia)