Family Saccamminidae Brady 1884 (foram)

Foraminifera - Astrorhizacea - Saccamminidae

Parent taxon: Astrorhizacea according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1988

See also Cushman 1927 and Morlotti 1988

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

Subtaxa: Pelosininae Pilulininae Saccammininae Thurammina Thurammininae Webinellinae

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Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (1 collection), Taiwan (4)

• Eocene of Belgium (1), Spain (9), Taiwan (8), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Washington)

• Paleocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Slovakia (2), Spain (2), Ukraine (2)

• Cretaceous of Canada (33: Alberta, British Columbia), Italy (1), South Africa (5), Ukraine (1)

• Jurassic of Germany (4), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (25)

• Triassic of Papua New Guinea (1)

• Permian of Australia (1), Lithuania (6), the Russian Federation (2)

• Virgilian of United States (12: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma)

• Pennsylvanian of United States (1: Texas)

• Carboniferous of United States (3: Indiana)

• Devonian of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (1), Myanmar (1), United States (1: Montana)

• Silurian of Paraguay (1), United States (2: Tennessee, Wisconsin)

• Ordovician of Estonia (3)

Total: 146 collections including 194 occurrences

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