Protozoa - Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Synonym: Protoperispyridium Yeh 1987
Parent taxon: Eptingiidae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Gorican et al. 2006, Hull 1997, O'Dogherty et al. 2009 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Capnuchospyris, Charlottea, Coronatubopyle, Cryptostephanidium, Divatella, Eptingium, Ferresium, Perisphyridium, Pylostephanidium, Spongostephanidium, Tozerium, Triassistephanidium, Triassolaguncula, Veleptingium, Xenorum
Subtaxa: Perispyridium apertum Perispyridium darwini Perispyridium dettermani Perispyridium dumitricai Perispyridium facetum Perispyridium gujohachimanense Perispyridium hippaense Perispyridium ordinarium Perispyridium oregonense Perispyridium schopfi Perispyridium serratum Perispyridium tamarackense Perispyridium trifolium Perispyridium whalenae
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Antarctica (18 collections), Canada (19: British Columbia), Italy (7), Japan (10), Mexico (17), New Zealand (3), Oman (1), Romania (2), Slovakia (4), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), United States (27: Alaska, California, Oregon)
Total: 112 collections including 190 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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