Protozoa - Spumellaria - Orbiculiformidae
Parent taxon: Orbiculiformidae according to W. Kiessling 1995
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Orbiculiformella, Pseudogodia, Spongiostoma, Spongostaurus
Subtaxa: Orbiculiforma australis Orbiculiforma campbellensis Orbiculiforma densaora Orbiculiforma gazipasaensis Orbiculiforma goestlingensis Orbiculiforma hexagonaora Orbiculiforma hullae Orbiculiforma iniqua Orbiculiforma kanayamaensis Orbiculiforma librataspira Orbiculiforma lowreyensis Orbiculiforma mclaughlini Orbiculiforma multa Orbiculiforma multibrachiata Orbiculiforma multifora Orbiculiforma octogonalis Orbiculiforma plana Orbiculiforma quadrata Orbiculiforma radiata Orbiculiforma renillaeformis Orbiculiforma sakaii Orbiculiforma sentarota Orbiculiforma vacaensis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of New Zealand (16 collections)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Austria (3), Azerbaijan (1), Canada (7: Nunavut), the Czech Republic (1), Denmark (25), Germany (2), Japan (14), Malaysia (4), New Zealand (8), Oman (4), the Philippines (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (15), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkey (1), United States (15: California)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (2), Germany (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (16), Argentina (1), Austria (7), Canada (1: British Columbia), Germany (6), Indonesia (2), Italy (5), Japan (27), New Zealand (5), Oman (2), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (3), Spain (3), Switzerland (3), Turkey (1), United States (16: Alaska, California, Oregon)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Canada (13: British Columbia), Cyprus (3), Mexico (5), Turkey (45)
• Permian of China (4), Japan (4)
Total: 304 collections including 503 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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