Lithelius Haeckel 1860 (radiolarian)
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Protozoa - Spumellaria - Litheliidae
Parent taxon: Litheliidae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Sharma and Takahashi 2007
Sister taxon: Cromyodruppa
Subtaxa: Lithelius difficilis Lithelius nautiloides Lithelius sinensis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections)
• Miocene of Japan (1)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (39)
• Cretaceous of New Zealand (7), the Russian Federation (1)
• Permian of China (9)
Total: 59 collections including 97 occurrences
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