Loopus Yang 1993 (radiolarian)

Protozoa - Nassellaria - Pseudodictyomitridae

Synonym: Candissa Hull 1997

Parent taxon: Pseudodictyomitridae according to W. Kiessling 1999

See also Hull 1997 and O'Dogherty et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Corum, Kozuricyrtium, Latium, Multimonilis, Pachus, Pseudodictyomitra, Triassocingula, Whalenella

Subtaxa: Loopus primitivus

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Ecology: passively mobile planktonic omnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Germany (1 collection), Greece (1), Japan (1), Oman (5), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Oman (1)

• Jurassic of Antarctica (9), Germany (8), Italy (16), Japan (23), Mexico (16), Nicaragua (1), Oman (3), the Philippines (1), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (13), Slovakia (3), Switzerland (1)

Total: 110 collections including 168 occurrences

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