Ostracoda - Podocopida - Thaerocytheridae
Parent taxon: Trachyleberidoidea according to C. T. Bergue and A. Govindan 2010
See also Ayress 1995 and Yamaguchi et al. 2016
Sister taxon: Hemicytheridae
Subtaxa: Bradleyinae Thaerocythere
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of North Pacific (1 collection), Panama (1), South Pacific (14)
• NN16 of South Pacific (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Pacific (2)
• Pliocene of New Zealand (1), South Pacific (9), United States (1: North Carolina)
• NN12 of South Pacific (13)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Atlantic (3)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), India (1), South Pacific (24), Southern Ocean (1), Trinidad and Tobago (3)
• NN1 of South Pacific (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of South Pacific (3)
• Oligocene of Indian Ocean (2), South Pacific (11), Southern Ocean (2)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (5)
• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (4)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (3), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), South Pacific (14), Southern Ocean (4), Tonga (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1)
Total: 135 collections including 143 occurrences