Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Carpocaniidae
Parent taxon: Acanthodesmiacea according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
Sister taxa: Acanthodesmiidae, Artostrobiidae, Bulbocyrtiidae, Cannobotryidae, Cuniculiformidae, Monicastericidae, Paratympanidae, Planispinocyrtiidae, Pterocorythidae, Rotaformidae, Sethophormididae, Spongolophophenidae, Spongosilicarmigeridae, Stephaniidae, Theopiliidae, Triospyrididae
Subtaxa: Carpocanarium Carpocaniinae Carpocanobium Cystophormis Diacanthocapsinae
Distribution:
• NN21 of North Pacific (7 collections)
• Neodenticula seminae of North Pacific (1)
• Quaternary of North Pacific (24)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of North Pacific (13)
• Neodenticula kamtschatica of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Japan (1), North Pacific (337), South Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of North Pacific (28)
• Oligocene of North Pacific (21)
• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (2)
• Eocene of Peru (1), South Pacific (33)
• Paleocene to Eocene of South Pacific (1)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (48), South Pacific (1)
• Cretaceous of Azerbaijan (5), Canada (5: Nunavut), Czechia (1), Germany (2), Italy (12), Japan (21), New Zealand (13), North Pacific (1), Oman (3), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (1), Türkiye (1), United States (2: California)
• Jurassic of Japan (3), Oman (2)
Total: 604 collections including 987 occurrences