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Lithocampana


Classification: rads_cenozoic -> Plagiacanthidae -> Lophophaenidae -> Lithocampana
Sister taxa: << < Antarctissa, Arachnocalpis, Arachnocorallium, Arachnocorys, Archipera, Archiperidium, Archipilium, Botryopera, Ceratocyrtis, Cryptogyrus, Dictyocephalus, Dictyocryphalus, Entepipedus, Gondwanaria, Lipmanella, Lithocampana, Lithomelissa, Lophophaena, Marimoum, Mitrocalpis, Pelagomanes, Periarachnium, Peromelissa, Phormacantha, P. inc sed castanoides, Plectacantha, Pseudocubus, Pseudodictyophimus, Pteroscenium, Steganocubus, Tripodocyrtis> >>
Daughter taxa (time control age-window is: 0-800Ma)
Lithocampana lithoconella

neptune records: 3
Lithocampana sp.

neptune records:

Taxonomy

Citation: Lithocampana Clark&Campbell 1942
Taxonomic rank: genus
Basionym: Lithocampana Clark and Campbell 1942
Type species: Lithocampana lithoconella Clark and Campbell 1942
Taxonomic discussion: Has been assigned to Theoperidae, here assigned to Lophophaenidae following new classification being developed by Suzuki & co-workers

Catalog entries: Lithocampana

Original description: Sethopilinae
Translated description: Tripocyrtidae with the basal mouth of the shell wide open] without lateral wings or solid spines.

Description


Morphology:

Sethopilinae [Tripocyrtidae with the basal mouth of the shell wide open] without lateral wings or solid spines.

This new genus resembles Lithomelissa Ehrenberg almost exactly, save in the absence of the radial appendages.

 

Biogeography and Palaeobiology

Biostratigraphic distribution

Geological Range:
Last occurrence (top): at top of Paleogene Period (100% up, 23Ma, in Aquitanian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of the species in this database
First occurrence (base): within Paleogene Period (23.03-66.04Ma, base in Danian stage). Data source: Total of ranges of species in this database

Plot of occurrence data:

References:

Clark, B. L. & Campbell, A. S. (1942a). Eocene radiolarian faunas from the Mt. Diablo area, California. Geological Society of America, Special Papers. 39: 1-112. gs


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