Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Alternative spellings: Cyterella, Cythere (Cytherella)
Parent taxon: Cytherellidae according to D. Ceolin et al. 2015
See also Alexander 1934, Babinot and Colin 2011, Bergue and Govindan 2010, Bertels 1968, Bertels 1973, Bertels 1974, Bertels 1975, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Ceolin et al. 2024, Crasquin-Soleau and Teherani 1995, Harloff and Jäger 1994, Hazel and Holden 1971, Jones 1850, Marianos and Valentine 1958, Sepkoski 2002 and Yamaguchi et al. 2016
Sister taxa: Cavellininae, Cytherellinae, Cytherelloidea, Issacharella, Leviella, Platella, Pyricythereis
Subtaxa: Cytherella (Staringia) Cytherella araucana Cytherella asperula Cytherella australoamericana Cytherella besrineensis Cytherella bispinulatus Cytherella bullata Cytherella concentrica Cytherella excavata Cytherella gambiensis Cytherella hannai Cytherella hiwanneensis Cytherella marlboroensis Cytherella muensteri Cytherella nuciformis Cytherella ovata Cytherella persensis Cytherella protuberantis Cytherella saraballentae Cytherella sarakundaensis Cytherella semicatillus Cytherella submarginata Cytherella sylverinica Cytherella sylvesterbradleyi Cytherella symmetrica Cytherella symmetrica Cytherella terminopunctata Cytherella toarcensis Cytherella tuberculifera Cytherella tumidosa Cytherella turgidula Cytherella utilis Cytherella vulgata
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), Panama (1), South Pacific (11)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Egypt (1), Panama (1), South Pacific (3), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), North Atlantic (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (9), Greece (19), India (1), Italy (11), Mexico (1), Puerto Rico (3), South Africa (3), South Pacific (21), Trinidad and Tobago (8), United States (1: Florida), Venezuela (14)
• NN1 of South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of South Pacific (3)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (4), Belgium (1), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (1), Iran (23), Mexico (7), Puerto Rico (2), South Pacific (11), United States (4: Alabama, Louisiana, Washington)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (5)
• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (4)
• Eocene of Bangladesh (2), Benin (1), Hungary (2), Indian Ocean (5), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (5), South Pacific (16), Southern Ocean (3), Togo (3), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (19: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of Argentina (16), Benin (4), Indian Ocean (2), North Atlantic (1), Togo (4), Trinidad and Tobago (12), Tunisia (1), United States (9: Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (4)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Antarctica (6), Argentina (7), Austria (1), Benin (3), Czechia (7), France (3), Gambia (1), Germany (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (18), Poland (2), Portugal (17), Saudi Arabia (1), South Atlantic (1), Tunisia (7), Ukraine (1), United States (16: Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), France (4), Germany (18), Madagascar (6), Poland (1), Portugal (16), the Russian Federation (8), Saudi Arabia (25), Spain (28), Switzerland (2), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (13)
• Triassic of Austria (12), Canada (6: Yukon), China (1), Iran (2), Türkiye (1)
• Permian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (4: Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky)
• Devonian of United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician of United States (1: Minnesota)
Total: 550 collections including 663 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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