Polycystinea - Nassellaria - Eucyrtiidae
Parent taxon: Theoperidae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Rhopalocanium, Lithochytris, Ectonocorys, Theopera, Eusyringium, Tetracapsa, Theopodium, Sethochytris, Dictyopodium, Theocorys, Theophaena, Udan, Gondwanaria, Dictyophimus, Rhopalatractus, Anthocyrtis, Valkyria, Lithostrobus, Cyrtopera, Pterosyringium
Subtaxa: Lychnocanium (Lychnocanella) Lychnocanium depressum Lychnocanium falciferum Lychnocanium lucerna
Type: Lychnocanium falciferum
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections)
• Pliocene of Southern Ocean (8)
• Miocene of Ecuador (1), South Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (3)
• Oligocene of South Pacific (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (1)
• Eocene of Cyprus (6), South Pacific (42)
• Paleocene to Eocene of South Pacific (1)
• Paleocene of Cyprus (1), South Pacific (1)
Total: 68 collections including 97 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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