†family Macrocystellidae Bather 1899
Parent taxon: Glyptocystitoida according to C. R. C. Paul and S. V. Rozhnov 2016
See also Beaver et al. 1967, Jell et al. 1985, Mergl and Prokop 2006, Sprinkle 1973 and Zamora et al. 2009
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Macrocystella
Type: Macrocystella
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Letna of the Czech Republic (1 collection)
• Arenig of Morocco (1)
• Ordovician of France (1), Greenland (1), Morocco (10), Norway (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (4), Bolivia (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (2), Morocco (1), Spain (2)
• Cressagian of the United Kingdom (2)
• Cambrian of Australia (1)
Total: 31 collections including 32 occurrences