Ostracoda - Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
Parent taxon: Paraparchitoidea according to A. Chitnarin and C. Ketwetsuriya 2021
See also Abushik 2015, Liebau 2005, Sohn 1969, Yuan and Crasquin-Soleau 2007 and Zazzali et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Coelonellidae, Ikeyaparchitidae
Subtaxa: Chamishaella Dentoparaparchites Ochesaarites Paraparchitella Paraparchites Proparaparchites Pseudoparaparchites Samarella Shemonaella Shishaella Shivaella
Type: Pseudoparaparchites
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (1 collection), Hungary (3), Iran (2), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Permian of Australia (16), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (131), Greece (9), Guatemala (5), Hungary (7), Iran (17), Israel (1), Italy (1), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (6), Saudi Arabia (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Thailand (22), 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 (40: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of China (4), France (3), Poland (10), United States (2: New York)
• Jaani of Estonia (1)
• Silurian of Estonia (2)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), United States (2: Oklahoma)
Total: 397 collections including 492 occurrences