Foraminifera - Ammodiscoidea - Saccamminidae
Parent taxon: Saccammininae according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1988
See also Cushman 1927, Morlotti 1988 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ammosphaeroides, Amphitremoida, Brachysiphon, Croneisella, Hyperamminita, Lagenammina, Lagunculina, Millettella, Ovammina, Pilulinella, Placentammina, Psammophaga, Pseudarcella, Sacculinella, Stomasphaera, Technitella, Urnulina
Subtaxa: Saccammina sphaerica
Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Taiwan (4 collections)
• Eocene of Spain (9), Taiwan (8)
• Paleocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Spain (2)
• Cretaceous of Canada (27: Alberta), Italy (1), South Africa (5)
• Jurassic of the Russian Federation (2)
• Permian of Lithuania (5), the Russian Federation (2)
• Carboniferous of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Devonian of United States (1: Montana)
Total: 68 collections including 83 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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