Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Parent taxon: Cytherurinae according to M. B. Forel 2017
See also Alexander 1934, Bertels 1969, Bertels 1973, Bertels 1975, Blaszyk 1987, Ceolin et al. 2024, Ceolin et al. 2015, Hazel and Holden 1971, Sepkoski 2002 and Ulrich and Bassler 1904
Sister taxa: Acrocythere, Citrella, Cresacytheridea, Eucytherura, Gruendelicythere, Kerocythere, Parariscus
Subtaxa: Cytheropteron (Cytheropteron) Cytheropteron (Eocytheropteron) Cytheropteron alafastigatum Cytheropteron alatum Cytheropteron bidentinos Cytheropteron danvillensis Cytheropteron galericulum Cytheropteron hyperdictyon Cytheropteron inops Cytheropteron latissima Cytheropteron montgomeryensis Cytheropteron nodosum Cytheropteron planalatum Cytheropteron reticuloradiata Cytheropteron rocanum Cytheropteron schornikovi Cytheropteron translimitares
Type: Cythere latissima
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Ontario collection), Iceland (1), Panama (1)
• Pliocene of Panama (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (5), Cuba (1), Greece (1), Italy (2), Peru (1), Poland (15), South Africa (3), Trinidad and Tobago (4)
• Oligocene of Antarctica (1), Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (4)
• Eocene of Bangladesh (1), Indian Ocean (1), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (3), Tonga (1), United States (19: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of Argentina (12), Indian Ocean (1), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Tunisia (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Argentina (3), Australia (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Spain (1), Tunisia (1), United States (4: Oklahoma, Texas)
• Jurassic of Portugal (12), the Russian Federation (6), the United Kingdom (15)
• Triassic of China (1), Turkey (1)
Total: 139 collections including 183 occurrences
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