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

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (1 collection), Japan (2), North Pacific (120), South Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (8)

• Pliocene of North Pacific (24), South Pacific (1), Southern Ocean (6)

• Miocene to Pliocene of North Pacific (1)

• Miocene of Japan (1), North Pacific (11), Southern Ocean (3)

• Oligocene of South Pacific (2)

• Eocene to Oligocene of South Pacific (1)

• Eocene of South Pacific (19)

• Paleocene of New Zealand (39), South Pacific (1)

• Cretaceous of Germany (1), New Zealand (7), the Russian Federation (6)

• Permian of China (9)

Total: 264 collections including 319 occurrences

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