Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Polycopidae
Parent taxon: Polycopoidea according to M. B. Forel 2022
See also Chitnarin 2017, Forel 2017, Forel 2017, Hazel and Holden 1971, Liebau 2005, Sebe et al. 2013, Tanaka 2018 and Yuan and Crasquin-Soleau 2007
Sister taxon: Quasipolycopidae
Subtaxa: Discoidella Nodopolycope Permopolycope Polycope Polycopinae Polycopsis Quasipolycope
Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection)
• Miocene of Poland (1)
• Eocene of Tonga (1)
• Cretaceous of the Bahamas (6), Hungary (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Austria (7), France (8), Germany (56), Hungary (1), Portugal (29), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (19), the United Kingdom (9)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Canada (5: Yukon), China (9), Hungary (4), Iran (1), Romania (25), Turkey (3)
• Permian of Australia (4), Azerbaijan (7), China (12), Greece (2), Hungary (5), Iran (3), Israel (2), Japan (1), Lithuania (11), the Russian Federation (2), Thailand (12), Turkey (1)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Turkey (1)
• Carboniferous of Hungary (1), Spain (1), United States (2: Kansas)
Total: 259 collections including 349 occurrences