Branchiopoda - Diplostraca - Lioestheriidae
Full reference: P. E. Raymond. 1946. The Genera of Fossil Conchostraca - an Order of Bivalved Crustacea. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 96(3):215-308
Parent taxon: Spinicaudata according to S. Štamberg and J. Zajíc 2008
See also Martens et al. 2005 and Pinto 1956
Sister taxa: Cyzicoidea, Eosestherioidea, Limnadioidea, Shipingiidae
Subtaxa: Asmussinae Lioestheria Lioestheriinae Pseudestheria
Ecology: slow-moving nektobenthic suspension feeder-detritivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of United States (1: Montana collection)
• Cretaceous of United States (4: Texas)
• Jurassic of Guyana (1), United States (4: Colorado, Montana)
• Triassic of Brazil (1), China (1), the Russian Federation (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Permian of Antarctica (1), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (4), Hungary (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (1: New Mexico)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: Nova Scotia), Germany (2), United States (4: Montana, New Mexico)
• Devonian of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 38 collections including 52 occurrences