Ostracoda - Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Parent taxon: Cytheroidea according to H. Wang et al. 2022
See also Bertels 1973, Bertels 1975, Blaszyk 1987, Carreño and Cronin 1993, Hazel 1983 and Liebau 2005
Sister taxa: Berounellidae, Bythocytheridae, Pseudocytheridae
Subtaxa: Cytheromorpha Elofsonia Heinia Hirschmannia Loxocauda Loxoconcha Loxoconchella Nipponocythere Palmoconcha Phlyctocythere Roundstonia Sagmatocythere Sanyuania
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), France (2), India (3), Italy (2), Panama (1), United States (5: Florida, Maryland, New York)
• Pliocene of Greece (1), New Zealand (1), Panama (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Belgium (1), Colombia (8), Croatia (4), Cuba (1), Georgia (1), Greece (21), India (1), Italy (7), Kazakhstan (2), Morocco (2), Poland (14), Puerto Rico (4), South Africa (3), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Turkey (3), United States (2: Florida, Maryland), Venezuela (11)
• Oligocene of Antarctica (1), Antigua and Barbuda (5), Germany (1), Mexico (6), Puerto Rico (7), United States (3: Alabama, Louisiana)
• Eocene of Hungary (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (2), United States (16: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of Argentina (19), Trinidad and Tobago (2), United States (5: Missouri, Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Myanmar (1)
Total: 183 collections including 336 occurrences