Ostracoda - Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Parent taxon: Leperditiidae according to A. F. Abushik et al. 2016
See also Benson et al. 1961, Raymond 1911 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anisochilina, Bivia, Briartina, Carbonia, Cyprida, Eoleperditia, Gibberella, Hermannina, Herrmannina, Heterochilina, Moelleritia, Schrenckia, Sibiritia
Subtaxa: Leperditia baltica Leperditia bivia Leperditia caecigena Leperditia canadensis Leperditia glabra Leperditia limatula Leperditia manitoulinensis Leperditia nana Leperditia rotundata
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (1: Alaska collection)
• Carboniferous of United States (1: Colorado)
• Devonian of China (7), Germany (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (5), United States (8: Alaska, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennyslvania)
• Silurian of Canada (53: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Germany (1), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (4), Sweden (8), the United Kingdom (3), United States (106: Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan and Ohio, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, West Virginia)
• Chazyan of Canada (4: Ontario, Quebec), United States (57: New York)
• Whiterockian of United States (16: California, Nevada, Utah)
• Ordovician of Canada (17: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), the Czech Republic (1), United States (97: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia)
• Cambrian of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 394 collections including 435 occurrences
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