Parent taxon: Glypheidea according to R. M. Feldmann et al. 2015
See also Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, De Grave et al. 2009, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2003, Klompmaker and Fraaije 2011, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Erymoidea, Glaessnericarioidea
Subtaxa: Chimaerastacidae Clytiopsidae Glypheidae Litogastroidae Mecochiridae Mesochiridae Neoglypheidae Platychelidae
Type: Glyphea
Ecology: infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Eocene of Antarctica (1 collection), New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (3: Washington)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (6), Argentina (2), Australia (5), Canada (3: British Columbia), Colombia (2), France (8), Germany (5), Greenland (7), Japan (1), Lebanon (1), Mexico (7), Morocco (1), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), Spain (5), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (5), United States (4: Kansas, North Carolina, Texas)
• Heterian of New Zealand (2)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), France (18), Germany (7), Greenland (10), Iran (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), New Zealand (3), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (3), Switzerland (11), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: Wyoming)
• Triassic of Austria (3), Canada (3: British Columbia), China (2), France (11), Germany (33), Hungary (1), Italy (8), the Netherlands (2), Poland (2), Switzerland (1), United States (6: Idaho, Nevada, North Carolina)
Total: 217 collections including 271 occurrences