Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Parent taxon: Cytheruridae according to M. B. Forel 2017
See also Babinot and Colin 2011 and Ballent 1998
Sister taxa: Cytheropterinae, Cytherura, Eucytherurinae, Hemicytherura, Howeina, Judahella, Kangarina, Kobayashiina, Konarocythere, Mehesella, Metacytheropteron, Microceratina, Mockella, Orthonotacythere, Otocythere, Paracytheridea, Paracytheropteron, Paradoxorhyncha, Pelecocythere, Procytheropteron, Procytherura, Typhlocythere, Wolburgia, Xylocythere
Subtaxa: Acrocythere Allaruella Citrella Cresacytheridea Cytheropteron Eucytherura Gruendelicythere Kerocythere Parariscus Semicytherura
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Ontario collection), France (2), Iceland (1), India (2), North Pacific (3), Panama (1), South Pacific (14)
• NN16 of South Pacific (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of South Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of Japan (2), Panama (1), South Pacific (5), United States (1: North Carolina)
• NN12 of South Pacific (12)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Miocene of Colombia (5), Cuba (1), Greece (11), Italy (4), Peru (1), Poland (17), South Africa (3), South Pacific (21), Trinidad and Tobago (4)
• NN1 of South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of South Pacific (3)
• Oligocene of Antarctica (1), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (4), South Pacific (11)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (6)
• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (4)
• Eocene of Bangladesh (1), Indian Ocean (1), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (3), South Pacific (15), Tonga (1), United States (20: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas)
• Paleocene of Argentina (21), Indian Ocean (1), Trinidad and Tobago (4), Tunisia (1), United States (2: Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (3)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Argentina (8), Australia (1), France (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Spain (1), Tunisia (6), Ukraine (1), United States (4: Oklahoma, Texas)
• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (32), Madagascar (1), Portugal (20), the Russian Federation (12), the United Kingdom (15)
• Triassic of Austria (1), China (7), Iran (2), Israel (2), Italy (5), Türkiye (2)
Total: 354 collections including 596 occurrences