Ostracoda - Podocopida - Darwinulidae
Synonym: Microdarwinulidae Kashevarova and Neustrueva 1982
Parent taxon: Darwinuloidea according to A. P. Carignano et al. 2021
See also Ballent et al. 2011, Carignano 2012, Liebau 2005, Musacchio 1973 and Rosetti and Martens 1998
Sister taxon: Suchonellidae
Subtaxa: Alicenula Darwinula Microdarwinula Penthesilenula Vestalenula
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Congo-Kinshasa (1 collection), Kenya (10), Mexico (1)
• Miocene of Croatia (4), Türkiye (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (2), Austria (1), China (2), India (1), Mongolia (1), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Brazil (1), China (2), Madagascar (1), Portugal (2), the United Kingdom (4)
• Triassic of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (14: New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia)
• Permian of China (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (4: New Mexico)
Total: 59 collections including 75 occurrences