Protozoa - Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Synonym: Parabipedis Yeh and Cheng 1996
Full reference: P. De Wever. 1982. Nassellaria (Radiolaires polycystines) du Lias de Turquie. Revue de Micropaleontologie 24(4):189-232
Parent taxon: Ultranaporidae according to De Wever et al. 2001
See also O'Dogherty et al. 2009 and Yeh and Cheng 1996
Sister taxa: Anaticapitula, Dumitricaella, Hinedorcus, Lychnocanoma, Muellericyrtium, Napora, Naropa, Picapora, Poculinapora, Pterocanium, Silicarmiger, Trialatus
Subtaxa: Bipedis acrostylus Bipedis calvabovis Bipedis diadema Bipedis douglasi Bipedis elizabethae Bipedis fannini Bipedis hannai Bipedis helenae Bipedis hiberniaensis Bipedis japonicus Bipedis patricki Bipedis rotundus Bipedis triassicus Bipedis yaoi Parabipedis pessagnoi
Type: Bipedis calvabovis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the Philippines (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Canada (83: British Columbia), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Japan (40), New Zealand (2), Peru (1), the Philippines (4), the Russian Federation (3), Turkey (13), United States (1: California)
• Triassic of Canada (22: British Columbia), Japan (8), the Philippines (1), Turkey (15), United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 197 collections including 289 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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