Thecostraca - Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Synonym: Arcoscalpellinae Zevina 1978
Parent taxon: Scalpellidae according to B. K. K. Chan et al. 2021
See also Buckeridge 1983, Carriol and Collins 2000, Chan et al. 2010, Gale 2015, Gale 2016, Gale 2020 and Harzhauser and Schloegl 2012
Sister taxa: Amigdoscalpellinae, Anguloscalpellum, Barbascalpellum, Brochiinae, Compressoscalpellum, Diceroscalpellum, Meroscalpellinae, Mesoscalpellum, Pilsbryiscalpellum, Planoscalpellum, Pteroscalpellum, Scalpellopsinae, Sinoscalpellum, Teloscalpellum, Trianguloscalpellum, Vertebroscalpellum, Virgiscalpellinae
Subtaxa: Arcoscalpellum Arcuatoscalpellum Diotascalpellum Graviscalpellum Jaegerscalpellum Regioscalpellum Scalpellum Tarasovium Verum Zevinaella
Type: Scalpellum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Portugal (1 collection)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Slovakia (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Hungary (1), United States (3: South Carolina, Washington)
• Eocene of Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Egypt (1), United States (3: Alabama, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Belgium (5), Czechia (11), France (3), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (7), the Netherlands (1), Poland (10), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (44), United States (35: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 139 collections including 202 occurrences