Protozoa - Nassellaria - Lophophaenidae
Synonym: Dictyocryphalus Haeckel 1887 [objective synonym]
Parent taxon: Lophophaenidae according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1961
See also Carroll 1988, Haeckel 1887, Liu and Aitchison 2002, Sepkoski 2002 and Suzuki 2009
Sister taxa: Amphiplecta, Antarctissa, Arachnocorallium, Arachnocorys, Archiperidium, Archipilium, Botryopera, Ceratocyrtis, Dimelissa, Lampromitra, Lamprotripus, Lophophaena, Lophophaenoma, Marimoum, Ovum, Peromelissa, Phormacantha, Plectacantha, Pseudocubus, Pseudodictyophimus, Steganocubus, Syscioscenium, Tripodocyrtis
Subtaxa: Dictyocephalus obtusus Dictyocephalus ventricosus
Type: Cornutella obtusa
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of China (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
• Jurassic of Japan (1)
Total: 3 collections including 6 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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