Plafkerium robustum Yeh 1989 (radiolarian)

Protozoa - Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae

Full reference: K. Y. Yeh. 1989. Studies of Radiolaria from the Fields Creek Formation, east-central Oregon, USA. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science 1:43-109

Belongs to Plafkerium according to K. Y. Yeh 1989

Sister taxa: Plafkerium abbotti, Plafkerium antiquum, Plafkerium confluens, Plafkerium contortum, Plafkerium fidicularium, Plafkerium gadoense, Plafkerium hindei, Plafkerium keloense, Plafkerium muelleri

Type specimen: Its type locality is Fields Creek, FC1E, which is in a Carnian deep-water limestone in the Fields Creek Formation of Oregon

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution: found only at Fields Creek, FC1E

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