Superfamily Pontocypridoidea Muller 1894 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Podocopida

Parent taxon: Cypridocopina according to M. B. Forel 2017

See also Babinot and Colin 2011

Sister taxa: Bairdiocypridacea, Cypridoidea, Macrocypridoidea

Subtaxa: Pontocyprididae

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Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer

Distribution:

• Quaternary of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), France (1), Italy (1), Panama (1)

• Pliocene of United States (1: North Carolina)

• Miocene of Australia (1), Italy (1), Poland (14), South Africa (3), Trinidad and Tobago (2)

• Oligocene of Antarctica (1), Antigua and Barbuda (4), Germany (1), Mexico (4), Puerto Rico (3)

• Eocene of Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Tonga (1)

• Paleocene of Argentina (14), Trinidad and Tobago (5), Tunisia (1), United States (2: Texas)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (6), Argentina (5), 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), Turkey (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: 207 collections including 270 occurrences

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