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
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