Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Paraparchitidae
Parent taxon: Paraparchitoidea according to T. Kolar-Jurkovšek et al. 2024
See also Abushik 2015, Chitnarin and Ketwetsuriya 2021, Liebau 2005, Olempska 2008, Sohn 1969, Yuan and Crasquin-Soleau 2007 and Zazzali et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Coelonellidae, Ikeyaparchitidae
Subtaxa: Chamishaella Dentoparaparchites Ochesaarites Paraparchitella Paraparchites Proparaparchites Pseudoparaparchites Shemonaella Shishaella Shivaella
Type: Pseudoparaparchites
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (1 collection), Hungary (1), Iran (2), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Permian of Australia (16), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (59), Greece (9), Guatemala (5), Hungary (6), Iran (5), Israel (1), Italy (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (6), Saudi Arabia (2), Serbia (1), Slovenia (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Thailand (14), United States (6: Kansas, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: Alberta), China (3), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (84), United States (41: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of China (4), France (1), Poland (3), United States (2: New York)
• Jaani of Estonia (1)
• Silurian of Estonia (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), United States (2: Oklahoma)
Total: 296 collections including 344 occurrences