Pyrgo Defrance 1824 (foram)

Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae

Parent taxon: Miliolidae according to J. M. Dorreen 1948

See also Loeblich and Tappan 1988, Margerel 2012, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1997

Sister taxa: Ammovertella, Miliolinae, Neaguitinae, Sigmoilina, Sinuloculina, Spiroloculina, Trillina

Subtaxa: Pyrgo denticulata Pyrgo microstriatus Pyrgo sinedente

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Canada (1: Nova Scotia collection), Greece (2), Iceland (1), Italy (1), Mayotte (1), the Seychelles (1), United States (2: Alaska, South Carolina)

• Pliocene of Egypt (5), Greece (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Cuba (1), Cyprus (1), Germany (6), India (1), New Zealand (1), Romania (1)

• Oligocene of Italy (2), Malta (4)

• Eocene of Hungary (5), United States (3: Louisiana/Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Bulgaria (1), India (1), Turkey (1)

• Paleocene of Iraq (28), Slovakia (1), Turkey (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Brazil (1), Mexico (1), Somalia (1), Spain (1)

Total: 79 collections including 83 occurrences

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