Foraminifera - Ammodiscoidea - Saccamminidae
Parent taxon: Saccammininae according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1988
See also Cushman 1927, Morlotti 1988 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ammosphaeroides, Amphitremoida, Brachysiphon, Croneisella, Hyperamminita, Lagunculina, Millettella, Ovammina, Pilulinella, Placentammina, Psammophaga, Pseudarcella, Saccammina, Sacculinella, Stomasphaera, Technitella, Urnulina
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Ukraine (2 collections)
• Cretaceous of Canada (2: British Columbia), Ukraine (1)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Spain (24)
• Triassic of Papua New Guinea (1)
• Permian of Lithuania (3)
• Silurian of United States (1: Wisconsin)
Total: 35 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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