Family Psammosphaeridae Haeckel 1894 (foram)

Foraminifera - Astrorhizacea - Psammosphaeridae

Parent taxon: Astrorhizacea according to W. Kiessling 2003

See also Loeblich and Tappan 1988

Sister taxa: Bathysiphonidae, Diffusilinidae, Dryorhizopsidae, Hemisphaeramminidae, Hippocrepinellidae, Polysaccamminidae, Rhabdamminidae, Rhizamminidae, Schizamminidae, Silicotubidae

Subtaxa: Psammosphaera Psammosphaerinae Stegnammininae

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Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Peru (1 collection)

• Eocene of United States (1: Washington)

• Paleocene of Ukraine (2)

• Cretaceous of Canada (4: Alberta), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (8)

• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (5)

• Triassic of Papua New Guinea (1)

• Permian of Australia (13), Lithuania (3)

• Carboniferous of Egypt (3), United States (38: Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma)

• Devonian of Germany (1), Italy (1)

• Cambrian of Guinea (1)

Total: 84 collections including 91 occurrences

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