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Costellagerina

Taxonomy
Costellagerina is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Foraminiferida by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data
C. pilula

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Costellagerina Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomChromistaCavalier-Smith 1981
subkingdomRhizaria()
RankNameAuthor
phylumForaminifera(Eichwald 1830)
genusCostellagerina

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Locomotion: stationaryo
Life habit: semi-infaunalo
Diet: omnivoreo
Created: 2007-11-28 00:47:02
Modified: 2009-05-20 05:31:44
Source: o = order
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Coniacian to the top of the Miocene or 89.80000 to 5.33300 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Cretaceous100.5 - 66.0Indian Ocean C. pilula (250405 250406 250407)
Coniacian89.8 - 85.7Indian Ocean C. pilula (247017 249027)
Santonian85.7 - 83.6Indian Ocean C. pilula (249023 249025 249026)
Miocene23.04 - 5.333Tunisia ( Oued Bahloul) C. sp. (219752)