Family Litheliidae Haeckel 1862 (radiolarian)
Protozoa - Spumellaria - Litheliidae
Parent taxon: Sponguracea according to P. De Wever et al. 2001
See also Sharma and Takahashi 2007
Sister taxa: Cyphantellidae, Gomberellidae, Oertlispongidae, Phaseliformidae
Subtaxa: Cromyodruppa Lithelius
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (2 collections)
• Miocene of Japan (1)
• Paleocene of New Zealand (39)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), New Zealand (7), the Russian Federation (6)
• Permian of China (9)
Total: 65 collections including 112 occurrences