Family Bathysiphonidae Avnimelech 1952 (foram)

Foraminifera - Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae

Alternative spelling: Bathysiphoninidae

Parent taxon: Astrorhizacea according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984

See also Loeblich and Tappan 1988 and Morlotti 1988

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

Subtaxa: Astrorhizinulla Bathysiphon Nothia Platysolenites Rhabdamminella Yanichevskyites

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of North Atlantic (2 collections)

• NN16 of Indian Ocean (1)

• Pliocene of North Pacific (2)

• Miocene to Pliocene of North Atlantic (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), New Zealand (2), North Atlantic (17), North Pacific (2), Peru (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of North Atlantic (11)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), North Atlantic (9), North Pacific (1), Taiwan (4), United States (1: California)

• Eocene of Indian Ocean (4), Japan (1), North Atlantic (8), Pakistan (1), Spain (11), Taiwan (9), United States (9: Alaska, California, Oregon, Washigton)

• Paleocene of Egypt (2), North Atlantic (1), Spain (2)

• Tertiary of Indian Ocean (2)

• Cretaceous of Antarctica (5), Austria (1), Canada (4: Alberta), Egypt (1), Indian Ocean (27), Italy (2), Japan (1), North Atlantic (3), Romania (1), South Pacific (7), Ukraine (8), United States (1: Alaska)

• Jurassic of Egypt (2), the Russian Federation (4)

• Triassic of Italy (1)

• Carboniferous of Egypt (1), United States (18: Oklahoma)

• Cambrian of Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador), Estonia (2), Norway (2), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (9), the United Kingdom (1)

• Begadean of United States (1: California)

• Ediacaran of the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 213 collections including 232 occurrences

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