Foraminifera - Rotaliina - Cassidulinidae
Parent taxon: Rotaliina according to W. Kiessling 2009
See also Cushman 1927, Holzmann and Pawlowski 2017 and Wienrich 1997
Sister taxa: Acervulinacea, Annulopatellinacea, Asterigerinacea, Aubignyna, Bolivinacea, Bolivinitacea, Buliminacea, Carterinacea, Cassidulina, Cassidulinacea, Caucasina, Chilostomellacea, Coryphostoma, Delosinacea, Discorbacea, Discorbinellacea, Discorbitura, Eouvigerinacea, Fursenkoinacea, Glabratellacea, Globorotalitidae, Hedbergellacea, Islandiellidae, Lepitorbitoididae, Mississippinidae, Nodosariacea, Nummulitacea, Orbitoidacea, Osangulariidae, Pappina, Planorbulinacea, Pleurostomellidae, Reussellidae, Rotaliacea, Siphoninacea, Siphoninidae, Spirillinacea, Spiroloxostoma, Turrilinacea
Subtaxa: Cassidulina Cassidulininae Ehrenbergininae Globocassidulina Paracassidulina
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (5 collections), Iceland (1), Italy (5), Panama (1), United States (2: Alaska, California)
• Pliocene of Ecuador (3), Ireland (8), Italy (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (1), South Africa (1), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Chile (1), Ireland (1), New Zealand (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Austria (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Chile (1), Ecuador (2), Germany (3), Ireland (16), New Zealand (5), Poland (1), Spain (1), Tonga (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1)
• Oligocene of Canada (3: British Colombia, British Columbia), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (4), United States (4: California)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Italy (1), Nigeria (1), Spain (6), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (9: California, Louisiana/Texas, Oregon, Washington)
Total: 106 collections including 141 occurrences