Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Alternative spelling: Cytherurinae
Parent taxon: Cytheroidea according to M. B. Forel 2022
See also Babinot and Colin 2011, Ballent 1980, Ballent 1998, Bertels 1969, Bertels 1973, Bertels 1974, Bertels 1975, Blaszyk 1987, Carignano 2012, Forel 2017, Hazel and Holden 1971, Krutak 1961, Liebau 2005, Marianos and Valentine 1958, Musacchio 1973 and Yamaguchi et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Berounellidae, Bythocytheridae, Pseudocytheridae
Subtaxa: Cytheropterinae Cytherura Cytherurinae Eucytherurinae Hemicytherura Howeina Judahella Kangarina Kobayashiina Konarocythere Mehesella Metacytheropteron Microceratina Mockella Orthonotacythere Otocythere Paracytheridea Paracytheropteron Paradoxorhyncha Pelecocythere Procytheropteron Procytherura Typhlocythere Wolburgia Xylocythere
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Ontario collection), France (2), Iceland (1), India (2), North Pacific (3), Panama (1), South Pacific (14), United States (2: Florida)
• NN16 of South Pacific (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Panama (1), South Pacific (5), United States (1: North Carolina)
• NN12 of South Pacific (12)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Atlantic (2)
• Miocene of Colombia (7), Cuba (1), Greece (17), India (1), Italy (6), Panama (1), Peru (1), Poland (19), South Africa (3), South Pacific (21), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (1: Maryland), Venezuela (4)
• NN1 of South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of South Pacific (3)
• Oligocene of Antarctica (4), Antigua and Barbuda (2), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (5), Puerto Rico (1), South Pacific (11), United States (3: Alabama, North Carolina)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (6)
• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (4)
• Eocene of Bangladesh (1), Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (5), South Pacific (15), Togo (2), Tonga (1), United States (24: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Argentina (23), Benin (2), Indian Ocean (1), Togo (3), Trinidad and Tobago (4), Tunisia (1), United States (3: Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (3)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Antarctica (6), Argentina (23), Australia (1), Benin (2), France (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Portugal (14), Spain (1), Tunisia (8), Ukraine (1), United States (7: Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Austria (4), France (4), Germany (52), Madagascar (3), Portugal (22), the Russian Federation (12), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (15)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Canada (2: Yukon), China (9), France (3), Hungary (1), Indian Ocean (1), Iran (5), Israel (9), Italy (5), Pakistan (1), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (2), United States (1: Alaska)
• Permian of Canada (1: British Columbia), Hungary (7), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 507 collections including 1052 occurrences