Prantlitina

Prantlitina
Temporal range:
Namurian–Present,
326–0 Ma[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Class: Tubulinea
Order: Arcellinida
Family: Difflugiidae
Genus: Prantlitina
Vašíček & Růžička 1957
Species
  • P. prantli
  • P. šustai
  • P. remeši
  • P. štúri

Prantlitina is a poorly studied genus of testate amoebae discovered in 1957 in Namurian freshwater sediments from the Ostrava-Karviná coal district, in former Czechoslovakia.[1] It was placed in the order Thecamoebina in the defunct class Sarcodina. Later, in 1993, it was recognized as the earliest fossil member of the family Difflugiidae, order Arcellinida,[2] but after that year it does not appear in any classification of Arcellinida or any other group.

  1. ^ a b Vašíček, Miloslav; Růžička, Bohuslav (1957). "Namurian Thecamoebina from the Ostrava-Karviná Coal District". Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae. 13B (5): 333–340.
  2. ^ Hart MB, Williams CL (1993). Benton MJ (ed.). The Fossil Record. Vol. 2. Chapman & Hall, London. ISBN 0-412-39380-8.