Thecostraca - Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Parent taxon: Scalpelloidea according to B. K. K. Chan et al. 2021
See also Brooks et al. 1969, Buckeridge 1983, Carriol and Collins 2000, Chan et al. 2010, Cornwall 1927, Gale 2015, Gale 2019, Harzhauser and Schloegl 2012, Jones 2007, Zullo and Baum 1979, Zullo and Baum 1981 and Zullo and Kite 1985
Sister taxon: Proverrucidae
Subtaxa: Amigdoscalpellinae Anguloscalpellum Barbascalpellum Brochiinae Compressoscalpellum Diceroscalpellum Meroscalpellinae Mesoscalpellum Pilsbryiscalpellum Planoscalpellum Pteroscalpellum Scalpellinae Scalpellopsinae Sinoscalpellum Teloscalpellum Trianguloscalpellum Vertebroscalpellum Virgiscalpellinae
Type: Scalpellum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (2 collections), Germany (1), Slovakia (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Austria (1), Hungary (1), United States (3: South Carolina, Washington)
• Eocene of Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Louisiana)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Egypt (1), United States (3: Alabama, New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Belgium (5), Czechia (10), France (4), Germany (1), Kazakhstan (8), the Netherlands (1), Poland (11), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (46), United States (46: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas)
Total: 153 collections including 228 occurrences