Family Rotaliidae Ehrenberg 1839 (foram)

Foraminifera - Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae

Parent taxon: Rotaliacea according to J.-P. Margerel 2012

See also Cushman 1927 and Loeblich and Tappan 1984

Sister taxa: Calcarinidae, Pellatispiridae

Subtaxa: Ammoniinae Cuvillierininae Dictyoconoides Discorbisinae Gryoidinoides Hoeglundina Kathininae Laffitteina Laffitteininae Lockhartia Oridorsalis Pararotalia Rotaliinae Turrispirillininae

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (2), France (5), Iceland (1), India (1), Italy (9), the Marshall Islands (1), Mayotte (4), New Caledonia (1), Panama (1), Poland (1), Suriname (3), Sweden (1), United States (15: Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Comoros (1)

• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Egypt (4), Greece (1), Ireland (8), Italy (2), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Taiwan (1), United States (2: Mississippi, South Carolina)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ireland (1), New Zealand (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (3), Austria (5), Cuba (2), Cyprus (5), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (26), India (6), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Ireland (16), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (2), Libya (2), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (2), Papua New Guinea (3), Peru (2), Poland (1), Romania (4), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (3: Florida, Mississippi, Texas)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1)

• Oligocene of Canada (2: British Columbia, Nova Scotia), Indonesia (1), Italy (9), New Zealand (1), Puerto Rico (1), Spain (1), Taiwan (2), Turkey (3), United States (1: Louisiana)

• Eocene of Hungary (2), India (7), Iran (4), Iraq (3), Italy (2), Libya (6), Maldives (8), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (2), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (7), Taiwan (1), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Alaska, California, Florida, Oregon, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), India (14), Iraq (10), Turkey (2)

• Paleocene of China (6), Croatia (1), Denmark (1), French Guiana (18), India (22), Iran (2), Iraq (69), Italy (1), Libya (2), Pakistan (2), Romania (2), Slovakia (6), Slovenia (1), Spain (4), Suriname (4), Turkey (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Egypt (2), France (1), Germany (2), Iran (1), Italy (18), Mexico (1), Poland (1), Somalia (1), Spain (2), Tunisia (33), Turkey (10)

• Triassic of United States (1: Nevada)

Total: 502 collections including 731 occurrences

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