††FAMILY CRETISCALPELLIDAE BUCKERIDGE, 1983 (CRETACEOUS)

Diagnosis: Eighteen plates in capitulum (paired scuta, terga, upper latera, rostrolatera, inframedian latera; carinolatera (two pairs), one subcarina.

Comment: Cretiscalpellidae form a sister group to the Scalpellidae, which evolved from them by loss of the subcarina and lower pair of carinolatera (Gale et al., 2019).

†† Cretiscalpellum Withers, 1922 (nine species)

†† Jagtscalpellum Gale, 2020 (five species)

†† Striascalpellum Gale, 2020 (four species)

†† Witherscalpellum Gale, 2020 (two species)