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
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of China (1 collection), 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: 71 collections including 106 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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