Lithelius Haeckel 1860 (radiolarian)

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

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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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