Superfamily Polycopoidea Sars 1866 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Myodocopida

Parent taxon: Myodocopina according to M. B. Forel 2022

See also Ferdinando 2001, Forel 2017 and Yamaguchi et al. 2016

Sister taxa: Cylindroleberidoidea, Cypridinacea, Cypridinoidea, Entomozoidea, Mesoleberis, Sarsielloidea

Subtaxa: Polycopidae Quasipolycopidae

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Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder-detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection)

• Miocene of Poland (1)

• Eocene of Tonga (1)

• Cretaceous of Hungary (1), North Atlantic (6)

• 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 (4: Yukon), China (9), Hungary (4), Iran (1), Italy (1), Romania (25), Türkiye (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), Türkiye (1)

• Carboniferous to Permian of Türkiye (1)

• Carboniferous of Hungary (1), Spain (1), United States (2: Kansas)

Total: 259 collections including 349 occurrences

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