Vinassaspongus erendili Tekin 1999 (radiolarian)

Protozoa - Spumellaria

Full reference: U. K. Tekin. 1999. Biostratigraphy and Systematics of late Middle to Late Triassic Radiolarians from the Taurus Mountains and Ankara Region, Turkey. Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck 5:1-296

Belongs to Vinassaspongus according to U. K. Tekin 1999

Sister taxa: Vinassaspongus discoidalis, Vinassaspongus subsphaericus

Type specimen: Pl. 2, fig. 9.. Its type locality is 96-UKT-551, Sugozu Measured Section II, Alakircay Nappe, which is in a Julian marine chert/mudstone in the Sapadere Formation of Turkey.

Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Thailand (2 collections), Turkey (13), United States (1: Alaska)

Total: 16 collections each including a single occurrence

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