Foraminifera - Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Parent taxon: Ammodiscidae according to T. Neagu and P. Cirnaru 2004
See also Cushman 1927, Loeblich and Tappan 1988, Morlotti 1988 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ammodiscinae, Ammovertellinae, Ammovertellininae, Ammovolummininae, Gandinella, Glomospirella, Hemigordiellina, Lituotuba, Psammophis, Serpulopsis, Tolypammininae, Usbekistaniinae
Subtaxa: Ammodiscus anceps Ammodiscus auricula Ammodiscus centrifugus Ammodiscus cretaceus Ammodiscus fusiformis Ammodiscus incertus Ammodiscus jurassicus Ammodiscus milioloides Ammodiscus parapriscus Ammodiscus robertsoni
Type: Ammodiscus cretaceus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal herbivore
Distribution:
• NN21 of Indian Ocean (1 collection)
• G. truncatulinoides PRSZ of Indian Ocean (1)
• G. ruber PRZ of Indian Ocean (3)
• Quaternary of Indian Ocean (6), North Pacific (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of North Pacific (1)
• Pliocene of North Pacific (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Indian Ocean (1), New Zealand (1), North Pacific (16), South Pacific (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Italy (1), North Atlantic (1), South Pacific (2), Taiwan (9)
• Eocene of South Pacific (3), Spain (5), Taiwan (4), the United Kingdom (10)
• Paleocene of Indian Ocean (3), Spain (2)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Austria (1), Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Indian Ocean (16), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Poland (7), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (14), South Africa (3), Tanzania (4), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (5)
• Jurassic of Austria (7), Germany (15), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (2)
• Triassic of Austria (2), China (13), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (19), New Zealand (1), Papua New Guinea (1), the Russian Federation (8), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (10), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (4)
• Permian to Triassic of India (1)
• Permian of Australia (26), Bolivia (1), China (10), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Iran (11), Italy (4), Lithuania (4), the Russian Federation (8)
• Carboniferous of Austria (1), Egypt (3), Greenland (1), Spain (1), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (47: Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Devonian of United States (1: Montana), Vietnam (1)
• Cambrian of Senegal (1)
Total: 372 collections including 418 occurrences
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