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Elphidium sp.

genus Elphidium de Montfort, 1808

• Modern species: early Eocene - Present (55.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Chromista, infrakingdom Rhizaria, phylum Foraminifera, class Globothalamea, order Rotaliida, family Elphidiidae

• Distribution
• Miocene: Tochigi
• Pliocene: Hokkaido, Toyama
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Kanagawa
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Akita, Ibaraki, Chiba

• Subtaxa
• E. advenum
• E. crispum
• E. fax barbarense
• E. subincertum