Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Cannobotryidae
Parent taxon: Acanthodesmiacea according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Sharma and Takahashi 2007
Sister taxa: Acanthodesmiidae, Artostrobiidae, Bulbocyrtiidae, Carpocaniidae, Cuniculiformidae, Monicastericidae, Paratympanidae, Planispinocyrtiidae, Pterocorythidae, Rotaformidae, Sethophormididae, Spongolophophenidae, Spongosilicarmigeridae, Stephaniidae, Theopiliidae, Triospyrididae
Subtaxa: Acanthobotrys Acrobotrys Amphimelissa Bisphaerocephalina Bisphaerocephalus Botryocampe Botryocylinder Botryocyrtis Botryometra Botryopyle Cannobotrys Centrobotrys Cornutovum Disolenia Neobotrys Pylobotrys Rhopalosyringium Saccospyris
Type: Cannobotrys
Distribution:
• Neodenticula seminae of North Pacific (1 collection)
• Quaternary of Japan (8), North Pacific (65), Southern Ocean (14)
• Neodenticula koizumii of North Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of North Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (11)
• Miocene of North Pacific (13), Southern Ocean (5)
• Oligocene of North Pacific (32)
• Eocene to Oligocene of North Pacific (15)
• Eocene of North Pacific (1), Peru (1)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Nunavut), Costa Rica (1), Czechia (1), Germany (1), Italy (13), Japan (8), Malaysia (5), North Pacific (1), Poland (1), Türkiye (1)
Total: 201 collections including 243 occurrences