Ostracoda - Podocopida - Pontocyprididae
Alternative spelling: Pontocypridinae
Parent taxon: Pontocypridoidea according to M. B. Forel 2017
See also Babinot and Colin 2011, Bergue and Govindan 2010, Bertels 1968, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Harloff and Jäger 1994, Hazel and Holden 1971, Liebau 2005 and Yamaguchi et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Abyssocypris Argilloecia Australoecia Bakunella Haworthina Liasina Pontocyprella Pontocypris Propontocypris Subulacypris Thomontocypris
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), France (1), Italy (1), North Pacific (1), Panama (1), South Pacific (7)
• Pliocene of South Pacific (2), United States (1: North Carolina)
• NN12 of South Pacific (6)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Italy (1), Poland (14), South Africa (3), South Pacific (15), Trinidad and Tobago (2)
• NN1 of South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of South Pacific (3)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (4), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (2), Mexico (4), Puerto Rico (3), South Pacific (11), Southern Ocean (1), United States (3: Washington)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (5)
• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (4)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (5), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), South Pacific (18), Tonga (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (15), Benin (2), Indian Ocean (1), Trinidad and Tobago (5), Tunisia (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (6), Argentina (7), Benin (2), France (1), United States (5: Texas)
• Jurassic of Austria (5), France (15), Germany (17), Portugal (15), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (36), the United Kingdom (2)
• Triassic of Canada (2: Yukon), Iran (3), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Türkiye (1)
• Permian of Hungary (2), Iran (1), Italy (1), Lithuania (10), the Russian Federation (1), United States (3: Kansas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Alberta), United States (3: Kansas, Ohio)
Total: 298 collections including 361 occurrences