PBDB Taxon

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Lithelius minor

Protozoa - Spumellaria - Litheliidae

Taxonomy

No taxonomic data are available

Sister species

L. difficilis, L. nautiloides, L. sinensis

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

L. foremanae, L. hexaxyphophora, L. kaikouraensis, L. marshalli, L. barbatus, L. nautiloides

Synonymy list

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Rank	Name	Author
—	Life
—	Eukaryota	()
class	Protozoa	Goldfuss 1820
subphylum	Sarcodina	Schmarda 1871
class	Reticularea	Lankester 1885
subclass	Radiolaria	(Müller 1858)

Rank	Name	Author
order	Spumellaria	Ehrenberg 1875
superfamily	Sponguracea	Haeckel 1862
family	Litheliidae	Haeckel 1862
genus	Lithelius	Haeckel 1860
species	minor

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

No ecological data are available

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian to the top of the Holocene or 72.20000 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (220 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	New Zealand (Marlborough)	Lithelius minor (95843 95845 95884 95885 95886 95887 95888)
Danian	66.0 - 61.66	New Zealand (Marlborough)	Lithelius minor (95851 95854 95856 95858 95859 95860 95866 95867 95868 95869 95870 95872 95874 95875 95876 95877 95878 95879 95880 95881 95882 95883 95891 95892 95893 95894 95895 95896 95897 95900 95901 95902 95903 95904 95905 95906 95907)
Selandian	61.66 - 59.24	New Zealand (Marlborough)	Lithelius minor (95909 95910)
Selandian	61.66 - 59.24	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (258869)
Eocene	56.0 - 33.9	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (258857 258861 258864)
Eocene - Oligocene	56.0 - 23.04	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (258856)
Middle Eocene	48.07 - 37.71	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (254226 254228 254229 254231 254232 254234 254235 254236)
Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene	48.07 - 33.9	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (254222)
M. lehneri PRZ	42.3 - 40.5	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (259849)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (254214 254219)
Priabonian	37.71 - 33.9	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (247923 247925 247926 247927)
Late/Upper Oligocene	27.3 - 23.04	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (254210 254211)
Miocene	23.04 - 5.333	North Pacific	Lithelius minor (266411 266412 266413 266414 266565)
Burdigalian - Langhian	20.45 - 13.82	Japan	Lithelius minor (236002)
Late/Upper Miocene	11.63 - 5.333	Southern Ocean	Lithelius minor (258880 259939 259943)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.58	North Pacific	Lithelius minor (266408 266555 266556 266557 266558 266559 266560 266561 266562 266563 266564 268114 268115 268117)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.58	Southern Ocean	Lithelius minor (247917 252136)
Pliocene	5.333 - 2.58	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (250574)
Early/Lower Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.774	North Pacific	Lithelius minor (261439 261440)
Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.0117	Indian Ocean	Lithelius minor (250874)
Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.0117	North Pacific	Lithelius minor (242475 242476 242477 242479 266534 266535 266536 266537 266538 266541 266542 266543 266545 266546 266547 266548 266549 266552 266553 266554 267595 267598 267599 267600 267603 267605 267607 267608 268100 268102 268104 268105 268106 268107 268108 268109 268112)
Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.0117	Southern Ocean	Lithelius minor (247617 249973 249975)
Pleistocene	2.58 - 0.0117	South Pacific	Lithelius minor (256854)
Pleistocene - Holocene	2.58 - 0.0	North Pacific	Lithelius minor (268099)
Quaternary	2.58 - 0.0	North Pacific	Lithelius minor (260316 260318 260322 260659 260660 260661 260662 260663 260666 260667 260668 260669 260670 260677 260679 260681 260683 260684 260826 260828 260830 260832 260845 261417 261419 261420 261421 261422 261425 261426 261760 261765 261769 261891 261894 261895 261935 261936 261937 261940 261941 261943 262274 262276 262287 262288 262289 262291 265957 267660 267665 267669 267670 267671)
Middle Pleistocene	0.774 - 0.129	North Pacific	Lithelius minor (261430 261432 261433 261434 261435 261436 261437 261438)
Holocene	0.0117 - 0.0	North Pacific	Lithelius minor (242466 242467 242468 242469 242470 242471 261229 266529 266530 266531 267589 267590 267591 267593 268092 268093 268096 268097)