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Sphaerulina

Staffellidae

Taxonomy
Sphaerulina is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Staffellinae by Rosovskaya (1965) and Zhang (1982); to Staffellidae by Ueno and Sakagami (1991); and to Foraminiferida by Sepkoski (2002).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1965Sphaerulina Rosovskaya p. 139
1982Sphaerulina Zhang p. 141
1991Sphaerulina Ueno and Sakagami p. 941
2002Sphaerulina Sepkoski

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomChromistaCavalier-Smith 1981
subkingdomRhizaria()
phylumForaminifera(Eichwald 1830)
suborderFusulinina(Wedekind 1937)
RankNameAuthor
superfamilyFusulinoidea(Möller 1878)
familyStaffellidaeMiklukho-Maklay 1949
genusSphaerulina

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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Sphaerulina elliptica Chang 1950
Sphaerulina ogbinensis Rosovskaya 1965
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available