Family Cyzicidae Stebbing 1910 (clam shrimp)

Branchiopoda - Diplostraca - Cyzicidae

Parent taxon: Cyzicoidea according to C. C. Lana and I. S. Carvalho 2002

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Cyzicus Turfanograpta

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Ecology: slow-moving nektobenthic suspension feeder-detritivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), Brazil (1), Mongolia (1), Thailand (1), United States (1: Texas)

• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Brazil (5), the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Germany (5), United States (10: New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia)

Total: 28 collections including 31 occurrences

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