Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Leperditellidae
Parent taxon: Welleriellacea according to L. M. Melnikova 2019
See also Abushik 2015, Benson et al. 1961, Henningsmoen 1953, Liebau 2005 and Mohibullah et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Glanditiidae, Welleriellidae
Subtaxa: Aparchitellina Bonneprimites Conchoprimites Conchoprimitiinae Coryellina Haploprimitia Kayina Leioprimitia Leperditella Leptoprimitia Parahealdia Punctaparchites Sinoprimitia Zaborovia
Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of China (1 collection), United States (2: Kansas)
• Devonian of Canada (1: Northern Territories), France (2), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (6)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Silurian of Australia (1)
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (4)
• Whiterockian of Canada (8: Northwest Territories), United States (23: Nevada)
• Chazyan of Canada (17: Northwest Territories, Quebec)
• Volkhov of Lithuania (2)
• Valaste of Norway (2)
• Hunderum of Norway (7)
• Arenig of Bolivia (1), China (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordovician of Canada (25: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (3), the Czech Republic (2), Estonia (2), Lithuania (4), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (9), Sweden (14), United States (60: Alaska, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin)
• Tremadoc of China (5)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 209 collections including 262 occurrences