Protozoa - Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Parent taxon: Eucyrtidiidae according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Vishnevskaya and Murchey 2002
Sister taxa: Artocapsa, Artophormis, Buryella, Calocyclas, Calocycloma, Clathrocycloma, Cymaetron, Cyrtocapsa, Cyrtocapsella, Eostichomitra, Eucyrtidium, Gigi, Guexella, Lantus, Lithopera, Milax, Phalangites, Phormocyrtis, Pseudoeucyrtis, Schaumellus, Solenotryma, Stichocorys, Stichomitra, Vistularia
Subtaxa: Stichocapsa anguillula Stichocapsa biceps Stichocapsa biconica Stichocapsa bukkiana Stichocapsa citriformis Stichocapsa convexa Stichocapsa ellipsoides Stichocapsa elpenor Stichocapsa gravida Stichocapsa japonica Stichocapsa naradaniensis Stichocapsa pilula Stichocapsa praepulchella Stichocapsa pseudoconvexa Stichocapsa pupa Stichocapsa robusta Stichocapsa singularis Stichocapsa taenia Stichocapsa yamizoensis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Italy (21 collections), Japan (3), Malaysia (2), Oman (2), the Philippines (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (3), Turkey (1)
• Jurassic of Albania (16), Antarctica (4), Armenia (2), Canada (9: British Columbia), China (1), Costa Rica (1), Germany (13), Greece (5), India (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (7), Japan (48), Mexico (1), Oman (3), the Philippines (5), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (24), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), Spain (6), Switzerland (3), Turkey (1), United States (18: California)
Total: 212 collections including 350 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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