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Pyrgo

Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae

Taxonomy

Pyrgo was named by Defrance (1824) [Sepkoski's age data: T Eo-u R]. It is extant.

It was assigned to Miliolidae by Dorreen (1948), Wienrich (1997); to Foraminiferida by Sepkoski (2002); and to Miliolinellinae by Loeblich and Tappan (1988), Margerel (2012).

Species

P. denticulata, P. microstriatus, P. sinedente

Species lacking formal opinion data

P. anomala, P. bulloides, P. clypeata, P. comata, P. dentata, P. depressa, P. depressa, P. elongata, P. elongata, P. guerreri, P. inornata, P. laevis, P. lucernula, P. lucernula, P. lunula, P. lupheri, P. murrhina, P. oblonga, P. serrata, P. simplex, P. simplex, P. subsphaerica, P. williamsoni

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1824	Pyrgo Defrance
1948	Pyrgo Dorreen p. 288
1988	Pyrgo Loeblich and Tappan
1997	Pyrgo Wienrich p. 30
2002	Pyrgo Sepkoski
2012	Pyrgo Margerel

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Chromista	Cavalier-Smith 1981
subkingdom	Rhizaria	()
phylum	Foraminifera	(Eichwald 1830)
class	Tubothalamea

Rank	Name	Author
order	Miliolida	Lankester 1885
superfamily	Milioloidea	Ehrenberg 1839
family	Miliolidae	Ehrenberg 1839
genus	Pyrgo	Defrance 1824

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.

G. Pyrgo Defrance 1824

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Pyrgo denticulata Brady 1884

†Pyrgo microstriatus Ozsvárt 2003

†Pyrgo sinedente Wienrich 1997

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

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Turonian to the top of the Holocene or 93.90000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 89.8 Ma

Collections (978 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Oldest occurrences
Turonian	93.9 - 89.8	Brazil	P. sp. (38891)
Coniacian	89.8 - 85.7	Mexico	P. sp. (42274)
Late/Upper Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	Austria	P. sp. (146295)
Santonian	85.7 - 83.6	Indian Ocean	P. murrhina (257296)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Somalia	P. sp. (74508)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Spain	P. sp. (74557)
Cenozoic	66.0 - 0.0	Indian Ocean	P. murrhina (257290 257292)
Selandian	61.66 - 59.24	Iraq (Kurdistan)	P. sp. (215044 215045 215046 215047 215050 215055 215059)
Selandian - Thanetian	61.66 - 56.0	Iraq (Sulaymaniyah)	P. sp. (215119 215120 215124 215140 215147 215148 215149 215150 215155 215156)
Selandian - Thanetian	61.66 - 56.0	Iraq (Kurdistan)	P. sp. (215085 215086 215089 215090 215095 215096 215102 215103)
Thanetian	59.24 - 56.0	Türkiye	P. sp. (155377)
Thanetian	59.24 - 56.0	Slovakia	P. sp. (88184)
Thanetian	59.24 - 56.0	Iraq (Kurdistan)	P. sp. (215063 215068 215069)
Late/Upper Paleocene - Early/Lower Eocene	59.24 - 48.07	India (Meghalaya)	P. sp. (214563)
Thanetian - Ypresian	59.24 - 48.07	Türkiye (Denizli)	P. sp. (215036)
Thanetian - Lutetian	59.24 - 41.03	Bulgaria (Mandrista)	P. sp. (214998)
Eocene	56.0 - 33.9	Indian Ocean	P. murrhina (248966)
Lutetian	48.07 - 41.03	Hungary	P. microstriatus (128434)
Middle Eocene	48.07 - 37.71	Hungary	P. simplex (171632 171633)
Late/Upper Eocene	37.71 - 33.9	Hungary	P. sp. (69699 69700)