Glomospirella Plummer 1945 (foram)

Foraminifera - Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae

Parent taxon: Ammodiscidae according to E. Morlotti 1988

See also Gall 1971, Kiessling 2003, Loeblich and Tappan 1988 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Ammodiscinae, Ammodiscus, Ammovertellinae, Ammovertellininae, Ammovolummininae, Gandinella, Hemigordiellina, Lituotuba, Psammophis, Serpulopsis, Tolypammininae, Usbekistaniinae

Subtaxa: Glomospirella facilis Glomospirella oscillens Glomospirella shengi

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal herbivore

Distribution:

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Austria (4), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (18)

• Jurassic of Austria (1), the Russian Federation (1), Somalia (1)

• Triassic of Australia (3), Austria (4), China (11), France (2), Greece (1), Hungary (11), India (1), Italy (15), Papua New Guinea (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (3), Slovakia (5), Slovenia (5), Thailand (1), Tunisia (2), Turkey (3)

• Permian of Australia (13), Azerbaijan (1), China (5), Iran (1), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (3), Tunisia (1)

• Carboniferous of Egypt (1), United States (3: Texas)

• Silurian of United States (1: Wisconsin)

Total: 130 collections including 161 occurrences

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