Family Candonidae Kaufmann 1900 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Candonidae

Parent taxon: Cypridoidea according to H. Wang et al. 2022

See also Babinot and Colin 2011, Carignano 2012, Dias-Brito et al. 2001, Liebau 2005 and Yamaguchi et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Candoninae Paracypridinae Trapezicandona

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Type: Candona

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (3: Alberta, Ontario collections), China (2), the Dominican Republic (1), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (6: California, Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, Texas)

• Blancan of United States (1: California)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Greece (1)

• Pliocene of India (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Turolian of Spain (1)

• Hemphillian of United States (2: Indiana, Kansas)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Uganda (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), Croatia (3), Georgia (1), Greece (19), India (1), Italy (5), Morocco (1), Poland (3), Slovakia (1), Türkiye (6)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (2), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (2), Puerto Rico (4), Türkiye (1), United States (6: Alabama, Louisiana, Montana)

• Eocene of Algeria (1), Bangladesh (1), Hungary (2), India (2), Indian Ocean (5), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (6), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (15: Alabama, Louisiana, Louisiana/Texas, Mississippi, Nevada)

• Paleocene of Argentina (17), Benin (1), Indian Ocean (1), Romania (2), Togo (4), Trinidad and Tobago (7), Tunisia (1), United States (2: Missouri, Texas)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (4)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Antarctica (6), Argentina (5), Brazil (2), Canada (1: Alberta), China (1), France (1), India (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (10), Myanmar (1), Portugal (2), South Atlantic (1), Tunisia (4), United States (7: Alaska, Oklahoma, Texas)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Austria (2), France (6), Germany (51), Hungary (2), India (1), Madagascar (4), Portugal (14), the Russian Federation (9), Saudi Arabia (4), Spain (3), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (3)

• Triassic of Canada (10: Yukon), China (26), Hungary (2), Iran (7), Israel (24), Italy (2), Romania (28), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia (2), Türkiye (18), United States (2: Alaska, North Carolina), Vietnam (1)

• Permian of China (5), Iran (7), Thailand (1)

• Carboniferous of Germany (8), United States (1: Tennessee)

Total: 454 collections including 558 occurrences

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