Foraminifera - Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Parent taxon: Ammodiscidae according to T. Neagu and P. Cirnaru 2004
See also Cushman 1927, Loeblich and Tappan 1988, Morlotti 1988 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Ammodiscinae, Ammovertellinae, Ammovertellininae, Ammovolummininae, Gandinella, Glomospirella, Hemigordiellina, Lituotuba, Psammophis, Serpulopsis, Tolypammininae, Usbekistaniinae
Subtaxa: Ammodiscus anceps Ammodiscus auricula Ammodiscus centrifugus Ammodiscus cretaceus Ammodiscus fusiformis Ammodiscus incertus Ammodiscus jurassicus Ammodiscus milioloides Ammodiscus parapriscus Ammodiscus robertsoni
Type: Ammodiscus cretaceus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal herbivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Austria (1 collection), New Zealand (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), Italy (1), North Atlantic (1), Taiwan (9)
• Eocene of Spain (5), Taiwan (4), the United Kingdom (10)
• Paleocene of Spain (2)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), Chile (1), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Poland (7), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (14), South Africa (3), Tanzania (4), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (5)
• Jurassic of Austria (7), Germany (15), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (5), Spain (2)
• Triassic of Austria (2), China (13), Greenland (1), Hungary (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (19), New Zealand (1), Papua New Guinea (1), the Russian Federation (8), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (10), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (4)
• Permian to Triassic of India (1)
• Permian of Australia (26), Bolivia (1), China (10), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Hungary (1), India (2), Iran (11), Italy (4), Lithuania (4), the Russian Federation (8)
• Carboniferous of Austria (1), Egypt (3), Greenland (1), Spain (1), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (46: Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Devonian of United States (1: Montana), Vietnam (1)
• Cambrian of Senegal (1)
Total: 313 collections including 359 occurrences
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