Nodosariata - Polymorphinida - Plectofrondiculariidae
Full reference: A. Liebus. 1902. Ergebnisse einer mikroskopischen Untersuchung der organischen Einschulusse der oberbayerrischen Molasse. Jahrbuch der K. K. Geologischen Reichsanstalt 52:71-104
Parent taxon: Plectofrondiculariidae according to B.W. Hayward et al. 2012
See also Al Menoufy and Shreif 2021, Cushman 1927 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Parafrondicularia
Subtaxa: Plectofrondicularia basispinata Plectofrondicularia kerni Plectofrondicularia mexicana Plectofrondicularia minuta Plectofrondicularia miocenica Plectofrondicularia oregonensis Plectofrondicularia packardi Plectofrondicularia parri Plectofrondicularia searsi Plectofrondicularia trinitatensis Plectofrondicularia vaughani Plectofrondicularia virginiana Plectofrondicularia vokesi
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (1 collection), South Pacific (1)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (6), North Pacific (27), South Pacific (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (2)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (2), Indian Ocean (3), North Pacific (4)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (2), Indian Ocean (18), New Zealand (3), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), North Atlantic (3), United States (4: California)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Ecuador (2), Egypt (2), North Atlantic (2), United States (5: California, Louisiana/Texas, Oregon, Washington)
Total: 97 collections including 104 occurrences
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