Foraminifera - Astrorhizacea - Psammosphaeridae
Parent taxon: Psammosphaeridae according to W. Kiessling 2003
See also Cushman 1927, Loeblich and Tappan 1988 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Psammosphaerinae, Stegnammininae
Subtaxa: Psammosphaera cava
Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Peru (1 collection)
• Eocene of United States (1: Washington)
• Paleocene of Ukraine (2)
• Cretaceous of Canada (4: Alberta), the Russian Federation (2), Ukraine (8)
• Triassic of Papua New Guinea (1)
• Permian of Australia (2), Lithuania (3)
• Carboniferous of United States (5: Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma)
• Devonian of Germany (1), Italy (1)
Total: 31 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.