Protozoa - Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Alternative spelling: Tripoclyclia
Parent taxon: Xiphostylidae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Kiessling 1999, Kiessling 2005 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amuria, Archaeocenosphaera, Suna, Triactoma, Trigonosphaera, Xiphostylus, Zanola
Subtaxa: Tripocyclia brooksi Tripocyclia crassa Tripocyclia foremanae Tripocyclia mascula Tripocyclia smithi Tripocyclia southforkensis Tripocyclia tortuosa Tripocyclia trigonum
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Philippines (1 collection)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Turkey (1)
• Jurassic of Antarctica (14), China (1), Japan (11), Mexico (12), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (6), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), Switzerland (1), United States (34: California, Oregon)
• Triassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), Hungary (1), Japan (1), Turkey (2)
Total: 97 collections including 131 occurrences
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