Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cyprididae
Alternative spelling: Cypridacea
Parent taxon: Cypridoidea according to A. P. Carignano 2012
See also Babinot and Colin 2011, Ballent 1998, Ballent et al. 2011, Bergue and Govindan 2010, Bertels 1968, Bertels 1969, Bertels 1972, Bertels 1973, Bertels 1975, Carignano and Varela 2011, Forel 2017, Hazel and Holden 1971, Liebau 2005, Martens and Savatenalinton 2011, Musacchio 1973, Musacchio and Simeoni 1991, Sebe et al. 2013, Sinitsa 1986, Uliana and Musacchio 1978, Van Itterbeeck et al. 2007 and Wang et al. 2022
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Camdenidea Carbonita Cyclocyprididae Cyclocypridinae Cypridinae Cypridopsinae Cypridopsis Disopontocypridinae Eucandonidae Eucypridinae Eucypris Herpetocypridinae Pullvillites Pulvillites Scabriculocypris Trapezoidellidae
Type: Cyprididae
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Alberta, Ontario collections), China (2), the Congo-Kinshasa (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Italy (1), Kenya (4), Mexico (1), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Texas)
• Pliocene of Kenya (1)
• Hemphillian of United States (1: Indiana)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Uganda (1)
• Miocene of Croatia (3), Germany (1), Libya (1), Switzerland (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (2), United States (3: Montana)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Colorado)
• Paleocene of China (1)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of India (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (3), Austria (1), Brazil (5), China (1), France (1), India (4), Liberia (1), Mongolia (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Arizona)
• Jurassic of Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Portugal (5), the United Kingdom (1)
• Permian of the Czech Republic (1), United States (2: Kansas)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Kansas, New Mexico)
• Devonian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordovician of Latvia (1)
Total: 79 collections including 103 occurrences