Protozoa - Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Full reference: E. Pessagno, W. M. Six, and Q. Yang. 1989. The Xiphostylidae Haeckel and Parvivaccidae, n. fam, (Radiolaria) from the North American Jurassic. Micropaleontology 35(3):193-255
Parent taxon: Xiphostylidae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Noble et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Amuria, Suna, Triactoma, Trigonosphaera, Tripocyclia, Xiphostylus, Zanola
Subtaxa: Archaeocenosphaera clathrata Archaeocenosphaera gregaria Archaeocenosphaera hexagonata Archaeocenosphaera laseekensis Archaeocenosphaera mellifera Archaeocenosphaera micropora Archaeocenosphaera minuscula Archaeocenosphaera radiata Archaeocenosphaera ruesti
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1 collection), Azerbaijan (6), Canada (4: Nunavut), Greece (1), Italy (6), Oman (4), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (5), Argentina (1), Canada (53: British Columbia), Germany (2), Greece (1), Italy (7), Japan (11), Mexico (7), Peru (1), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (8), Slovenia (5), Switzerland (1), United States (43: California, Oregon)
• Triassic of Albania (3), Canada (40: British Columbia), China (2), Cyprus (1), Hungary (5), Thailand (22)
Total: 246 collections including 298 occurrences
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