Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Alternative spelling: Cytherurinae
Parent taxon: Cytheroidea according to M. B. Forel 2022
See also Babinot and Colin 2011, Ballent 1980, Ballent 1998, Bertels 1969, Bertels 1973, Bertels 1974, Bertels 1975, Blaszyk 1987, Carignano 2012, Forel 2017, Hazel and Holden 1971, Krutak 1961, Liebau 2005, Marianos and Valentine 1958 and Musacchio 1973
Sister taxa: Berounellidae, Bythocytheridae, Pseudocytheridae
Subtaxa: Cytheropterinae Cytherura Cytherurinae Eucytherurinae Hemicytherura Howeina Judahella Kangarina Kobayashiina Konarocythere Mehesella Metacytheropteron Microceratina Mockella Orthonotacythere Otocythere Paracytheridea Paracytheropteron Paradoxorhyncha Pelecocythere Procytheropteron Procytherura Typhlocythere Wolburgia
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore-grazer
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Ontario collection), France (2), Iceland (1), India (2), Panama (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene of Panama (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of North Atlantic (2)
• Miocene of Colombia (7), Cuba (1), Greece (17), India (1), Italy (6), Panama (1), Peru (1), Poland (19), South Africa (3), Trinidad and Tobago (4), United States (1: Maryland), Venezuela (4)
• Oligocene of Antarctica (4), Antigua and Barbuda (2), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (5), Puerto Rico (1), United States (3: Alabama, North Carolina)
• Eocene of Bangladesh (1), Indian Ocean (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (5), Tonga (1), United States (24: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Argentina (23), Indian Ocean (1), Trinidad and Tobago (4), Tunisia (1), United States (3: Texas)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Argentina (3)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (1), Antarctica (6), Argentina (23), Australia (1), France (2), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), Portugal (14), Spain (1), Tunisia (8), Ukraine (1), United States (7: Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Jurassic of Austria (4), France (4), Germany (52), Madagascar (3), Portugal (22), the Russian Federation (12), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), the United Kingdom (15)
• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (2), Canada (2: Yukon), China (9), France (3), Hungary (1), Iran (5), Israel (9), Italy (5), Pakistan (1), Tunisia (1), Turkey (2), United States (1: Alaska)
• Permian of Canada (1: British Columbia), Hungary (7), United States (1: Texas)
Total: 399 collections including 945 occurrences