Foraminifera - Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Parent taxon: Turrilininae according to A. Bertels 1964
See also Cushman 1927, Cushman and Leroy 1938, Margerel 2009 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Buliminoides
Subtaxa: Buliminella arcuata Buliminella curta Buliminella pulchra Buliminella subfusiformis
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (3: South Carolina, Virginia collections)
• Pliocene of Chile (2), Ecuador (1), Japan (1), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), India (1), United States (4: California, Florida, Mississippi)
• Oligocene of United States (4: California, Louisiana)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Nigeria (2), Tonga (1), United States (2: Louisiana, Louisiana/Texas)
• Paleocene of Suriname (3)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), New Zealand (1)
Total: 32 collections including 38 occurrences
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