Subfamily Psammosphaerinae Haeckel 1894 (foram)

Foraminifera - Astrorhizacea - Psammosphaeridae

Parent taxon: Psammosphaeridae according to W. Kiessling 2003

See also Cushman 1927 and Loeblich and Tappan 1988

Sister taxa: Psammosphaera, Stegnammininae

Subtaxa: Anictosphaera Bykovaeina Cellonina Psammophax Pseudastrorhiza Sorosphaera Spiculosiphon Storthosphaera Thuramminoides Thuramminopsis

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Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Permian of Australia (12 collections)

• Carboniferous of Egypt (2), United States (34: Indiana)

• Cambrian of Guinea (1)

Total: 49 collections including 54 occurrences

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