Protozoa - Spumellaria - Stylosphaeridae
Parent taxon: Stylosphaeridae according to K. Sashida et al. 1999
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Zügel 1997
Sister taxa: Druppatractus, Dumitricasphaera, Lithomespilus, Praestylosphaera, Protoxiphotractus, Spongostylus, Stylatractus, Stylosphaera, Xiphatractus, Zhamojdasphaera
Subtaxa: Staurolonche extensa Staurolonche granulosum Staurolonche insignis Staurolonche laterna Staurolonche macracantha Staurolonche micropora Staurolonche robusta Staurolonche scitula Staurolonche spinigera Staurolonche tenella Staurolonche trispinosa
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Antarctica (4 collections), Canada (11: British Columbia), Germany (2), Italy (2), Japan (8), Oman (1), Slovenia (4), Turkey (1), United States (1: California)
• Triassic of Albania (1), Austria (1), China (4), Indonesia (4), Italy (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (6)
• Permian of China (4)
Total: 57 collections including 88 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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