Suborder Platycopina Sars 1866

Ostracoda - Platycopida

Alternative spelling: Platycopa

Parent taxon: Platycopida according to M. B. Forel 2022

See also Babinot and Colin 2011, Benson et al. 1961, Bertels 1968, Bertels 1973, Bertels 1974, Bertels 1975, CarreƱo and Cronin 1993, Chitnarin 2017, Crasquin 2008, Marianos and Valentine 1958 and Zazzali et al. 2015

Sister taxa: Gotlandella, Kloedenellocopina, Nyhamnella, Struveopsis

Subtaxa: Barychilinoidea Cavellinacea Cavellinoidea Cytherelloidea

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of India (2 collections), Italy (1), Panama (1)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Egypt (1), Panama (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), North Atlantic (1)

• Miocene of Colombia (9), Greece (19), India (1), Italy (11), Mexico (1), Panama (1), Puerto Rico (3), South Africa (3), Trinidad and Tobago (8), United States (2: Florida), Venezuela (14)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (4), Belgium (1), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (7), Puerto Rico (3), United States (7: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi)

• Eocene of Antarctica (4), Bangladesh (2), Hungary (2), India (1), Indian Ocean (5), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (4), Pakistan (7), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (34: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas)

• Paleocene of Argentina (15), Indian Ocean (3), North Atlantic (1), Togo (1), Trinidad and Tobago (12), Tunisia (1), United States (13: Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Texas)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)

• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Antarctica (11), Argentina (6), Austria (1), Brazil (1), France (3), Gambia (1), Germany (7), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (23), the Netherlands (2), Poland (2), Portugal (17), Saudi Arabia (1), Tunisia (8), Ukraine (1), United States (17: Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas)

• Jurassic of Algeria (1), France (7), Germany (49), Madagascar (7), Poland (1), Portugal (21), the Russian Federation (8), Saudi Arabia (25), Spain (32), Switzerland (2), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (20)

• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (13), Canada (11: Yukon), China (1), Hungary (1), Iran (11), Israel (14), Italy (6), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Turkey (3), United States (6: Alaska)

• Permian of Australia (13), Azerbaijan (7), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (54), Greece (7), Guatemala (2), Hungary (12), Iran (24), Israel (7), Italy (8), Japan (2), Lithuania (7), Oman (41), the Russian Federation (9), Saudi Arabia (4), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Thailand (11), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (17: Kansas, Texas, Wyoming), Venezuela (2)

• Virgilian of United States (2: Maryland, Texas)

• Desmoinesian of United States (4: Missouri, Oklahoma)

• Westphalian of Spain (1)

• Pennsylvanian of United States (2: Oklahoma, Texas)

• Chesterian of Canada (1: Alberta), United States (2: Arkansas, Wyoming)

• Osagean of United States (2: Illinois, Ohio)

• Carboniferous of Canada (2: Alberta), China (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (38: Arkansas, California, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma)

• Devonian of China (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (3), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (6), Turkey (1), United States (18: Alaska, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia)

• Silurian of Estonia (1), Germany (2), Lithuania (1), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (5)

• Ordovician of United States (1: Minnesota)

• Ediacaran of Mexico (1)

Total: 914 collections including 1378 occurrences

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