Spongotrochus Haeckel 1860 (radiolarian)

Protozoa - Spumellaria - Spongodiscidae

Parent taxon: Spongodiscidae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Sharma and Takahashi 2007

Sister taxa: Amphirhopalum, Chitonastrum, Dictyocorine, Dictyocoryne, Euchitonia, Haliodictya, Hymeniastrum, Ommatogramma, Porodiscus, Rhopalastrum, Spongaster, Spongodiscus, Spongotripus, Stylochlamydium, Stylodictya, Stylospongia, Teichertus, Tesserastrum, Tholodiscus, Trigonastrum

Subtaxa: Spongotrochus discoidalis Spongotrochus elongatus Spongotrochus primaevus

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution:

• NN21 of North Pacific (2 collections)

• Brunhes of North Pacific (1)

• Quaternary of North Pacific (328), Southern Ocean (24)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (1)

• Pliocene of North Pacific (35), Southern Ocean (28)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Southern Ocean (1)

• Miocene of Japan (1), Southern Ocean (20)

• Paleocene of China (1), New Zealand (36)

• Cretaceous of New Zealand (7)

• Jurassic of Canada (10: British Columbia), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (8), New Zealand (2)

• Triassic of Canada (3: British Columbia), Japan (2)

Total: 512 collections including 560 occurrences

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