Family Cypridinidae Baird 1850 (ostracod)

Ostracoda - Myodocopida - Cypridinidae

Parent taxon: Cypridinoidea according to M. B. Forel 2017

See also Benson et al. 1961, Kornicker and Sohn 2000 and Liebau 2005

Sister taxa: Cylindroleberididae, Sarsiellidae

Subtaxa: Azygocypridina Codonocera Cypridina Cypridininae Gigantocypris Heterodesmus Macrocypridina Monopia Palaeocypridina Prodigiosus Triadocypridininae Triadogigantocypris Vargula

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Type: Cypridina

Ecology: planktonic suspension feeder-detritivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of France (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of France (2), the Netherlands (1), Ukraine (1)

• Jurassic of France (1)

• Triassic to Cretaceous of Hungary (1)

• Triassic of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Brazil (1), Italy (1), Romania (9)

• Permian of Greece (2), Italy (2), Lithuania (3)

• Carboniferous of United States (1: Ohio)

• Devonian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Silurian to Devonian of the Czech Republic (1)

• Silurian of the Czech Republic (1), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 34 collections including 42 occurrences

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