Protozoa - Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Alternative combination: Bipedis pessagnoi
Full reference: K. Y. Yeh and Y. N. Cheng. 1996. An Upper Triassic (Rhaetian) radiolarian assemblage from Busuanga Island, Philippines. Bulletin of National Museum of Natural Science 7:1-43
Belongs to Parabipedis according to K. Y. Yeh and Y. N. Cheng 1996
See also Danelian 2010
Sister taxa: Bipedis acrostylus, Bipedis calvabovis, Bipedis diadema, Bipedis douglasi, Bipedis elizabethae, Bipedis fannini, Bipedis hannai, Bipedis helenae, Bipedis hiberniaensis, Bipedis japonicus, Bipedis patricki, Bipedis rotundus, Bipedis triassicus, Bipedis yaoi
Type specimen: Its type locality is CR90-165 Busuanga Island, which is in a Rhaetian basinal (siliceous) chert in the Philippines
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution: found only at CR90-165 Busuanga Island
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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