Gorgansium Pessagno and Blome 1980 (radiolarian)

Protozoa - Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae

Parent taxon: Pantanelliinae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001

See also Kiessling 1999 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Betraccium, Cantalum, Cecrops, Pachyoncus, Pantanellium, Pseudopantanellium, Trillus, Zartus

Subtaxa: Gorgansium alpinum Gorgansium beaverense Gorgansium blomi Gorgansium browni Gorgansium morganense Gorgansium pulchrum Gorgansium silviesense Gorgansium steigeri Gorgansium thayeri Gorgansium yangi

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (3 collections), Oman (2), the Russian Federation (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (2)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (9), Canada (6: British Columbia), Germany (2), Greece (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), Japan (18), Mexico (15), the Philippines (1), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (3), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), Turkey (13), United States (22: California, Oregon)

• Triassic of China (1), Japan (8), the Philippines (1), Turkey (5), United States (2: Oregon)

Total: 127 collections including 199 occurrences

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