Ostracoda - Podocopida - Microcheilinellidae
Parent taxon: Sigillioidea according to T. Kolar-Jurkovšek et al. 2024
See also Abushik and Evdokimova 2016, Chitnarin 2017, Chitnarin and Ketwetsuriya 2021, Crasquin 2008, Crasquin and Forel 2010, Forel 2017, Forel 2017, Kozur 1985, Tanaka 2018 and Zazzali et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Krausellidae, Sigilliidae
Subtaxa: Microcheilinella
Type: Microcheilinella
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Triassic of China (8 collections), Hungary (5), Pakistan (1), Romania (1), Turkey (5)
• Permian of Azerbaijan (4), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (190), Greece (6), Guatemala (6), Hungary (8), Iran (21), Italy (3), Japan (3), Lithuania (15), the Russian Federation (2), Slovenia (4), Thailand (10), Turkey (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of China (2), Italy (1), United States (10: Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas)
• Devonian of Belgium (1), China (1), France (2), Poland (13), the Russian Federation (19), Turkey (1), United States (6: Michigan, Ohio)
• Silurian of Estonia (3), Lithuania (2), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (3)
Total: 361 collections including 537 occurrences