†family Beyrichiidae Jones 1894 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae

Parent taxon: Beyrichioidea according to S. Crasquin 2008

See also Benson et al. 1961, Liebau 2005, Talent 1963 and Tilman 1984

Sister taxon: Craspedobolbinidae

Subtaxa: Apatobolbina Beyrichia Bolbibollia Bolbineossia Bolbiprimitia Cornikloedenia Ctenobolbinella Deloia Dibolbina Dolichoscapha Drepanellina Halliella Hibbardia Kloedenia Knoxina Kyamodes Lophokloedenia Mesomphalus Mooreina Myomphalus Neoulrichia Phlyctiscapha Pseudobeyrichia Saccarchites Savagellites Treposella Treposellinae Velibeyrichia Welleria Welleriopsis Zygobeyrichia

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Ecology: epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of China (2 collections), Israel (1), Italy (3)

• Westphalian of Spain (1)

• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma)

• Couvinien of Australia (1)

• Devonian of Australia (5), Brazil (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (3), Luxembourg (1), Morocco (1), Spain (2), Ukraine (2), United States (34: Alaska, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia)

• Silurian to Devonian of Italy (2)

• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (16: Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (1), Estonia (3), Germany (4), Italy (3), Lithuania (5), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (7), Sweden (10), Ukraine (11), the United Kingdom (24), United States (83: Maryland, Michigan and Ohio, New York, West Virginia)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)

• Ordovician of Australia (4), Canada (1: Nunavut), the Czech Republic (1), United States (15: Iowa, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee)

Total: 267 collections including 364 occurrences

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