Bathysiphon Sars 1872 (foram)

Foraminifera - Astrorhizacea - Bathysiphonidae

Parent taxon: Bathysiphonidae according to W. Kiessling 2003

See also Cushman 1927, Loeblich and Tappan 1988, Morlotti 1988 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Astrorhizinulla, Nothia, Platysolenites, Rhabdamminella

Subtaxa: Bathysiphon eocenica Bathysiphon eocenicus Bathysiphon sanctaecrucis

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene to Oligocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia collection)

• Miocene of Austria (1), New Zealand (2), Peru (1)

• Oligocene of Germany (1), North Atlantic (2), Taiwan (4), United States (1: California)

• Eocene of Japan (1), Pakistan (1), Spain (10), Taiwan (9), United States (9: Alaska, California, Oregon, Washigton)

• Paleocene of Spain (2)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Canada (4: Alberta), Egypt (1), Italy (2), Japan (1), Ukraine (8), United States (1: Alaska)

• Jurassic of Egypt (2), the Russian Federation (4)

• Triassic of Italy (1)

• Carboniferous of Egypt (1), United States (18: Oklahoma)

Total: 89 collections including 94 occurrences

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