†family Limnocytheridae Klie 1938 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Podocopida - Limnocytheridae

Synonyms: Glorianellidae Schneider 1960, Glorianellinae Schneider 1960

Parent taxon: Cytheroidea according to D. S. D'Ambrosio et al. 2020

See also Ballent et al. 2011, Carignano 2012, Carignano and Cusminsky 2015, Carignano and Varela 2011, Forel 2017, Kozur 1970, Van Itterbeeck et al. 2007 and Whatley and Boomer 2000

Sister taxa: Berounellidae, Bythocytheridae, Pseudocytheridae

Subtaxa: Bisulcocypris Cytheridella Glorianella Limnocythere Limnocytherinae Lutkevichinella Metacypridinae Paracythereis Pterocythere Simeonella Timiriaseviinae Triassinella

View classification

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Canada (4: Alberta, Ontario), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Kenya (4), United States (2: California, Michigan)

• Pliocene of Kenya (1)

• Miocene of Croatia (1), Libya (1), Peru (1), Venezuela (1)

• Paleocene of China (1), Mongolia (1), Romania (2)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of India (1)

• Cretaceous of Argentina (9), China (1), France (1), India (1), Mongolia (1), Spain (3), USSR (1)

• Jurassic of Brazil (1), China (1), Portugal (6), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4)

• Triassic of Austria (5), Canada (1: Yukon), China (3), Hungary (1), Israel (14), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (2), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (2)

Total: 86 collections including 106 occurrences

Show more details