Alternative combination: Nannoturbella moriformis
Belongs to Sphenolithus according to J. P. Pérez Panera 2013
See also Bramlette and Wilcoxon 1967 and Fujioka et al. 1998
Sister taxa: Sphenolithus abies, Sphenolithus compactus, Sphenolithus heteromorphus, Sphenolithus radians
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (31 collections), North Atlantic (2), North Pacific (4), South Pacific (111)
• NN16 of South Pacific (7)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indian Ocean (1)
• Pliocene of Indian Ocean (20), North Atlantic (4), North Pacific (45), South Pacific (25)
• NN12 of North Pacific (5), South Pacific (14)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Pacific (1), South Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Azerbaijan (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (234), Indonesia (1), Micronesia (7), North Atlantic (18), North Pacific (463), South Pacific (153), Taiwan (1), Tanzania (1)
• NN1 of Indian Ocean (5), North Atlantic (5), North Pacific (17), South Pacific (4)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (15), North Pacific (28), South Pacific (12)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Indian Ocean (25), North Atlantic (87), North Pacific (289), South Pacific (66)
• H. alabamensis HOZ of South Pacific (12)
• NP21 of North Pacific (8)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (3), North Pacific (30), South Pacific (16)
• Eocene of Indian Ocean (13), North Atlantic (166), North Pacific (117), South Pacific (177), Tonga (1), Ukraine (2), United States (5: California, Georgia, North Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of North Atlantic (3), South Pacific (2)
• Paleocene of Indian Ocean (7), North Atlantic (33), South Pacific (12)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of North Atlantic (5), South Pacific (3)
Total: 2323 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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