Protozoa - Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Parent taxon: Xiphostylidae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Hull 1997 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amuria, Archaeocenosphaera, Suna, Triactoma, Trigonosphaera, Tripocyclia, Zanola
Subtaxa: Xiphostylus ardea Xiphostylus asper Xiphostylus communis Xiphostylus duvalensis Xiphostylus fragilis Xiphostylus gasquetensis Xiphostylus halli Xiphostylus inclinatus Xiphostylus logdellensis Xiphostylus simplus Xiphostylus whalenae
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Philippines (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Canada (3: British Columbia), China (1), Japan (8), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (4), Spain (6), United States (50: California, Oregon)
Total: 75 collections including 109 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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