Foraminifera - Lituolida - Lituolidae
Parent taxon: Lituolidae according to A. P. Carignano 2012
See also Loeblich and Tappan 1988, Margerel 2012 and Neagu and Cirnaru 2004
Sister taxa: Ammoastutinae, Ammomarginulina, Bdelloidina, Cyclammina, Haddonia, Haplophragmiinae, Lituola, Lituosepta, Orbitopsella, Placopsilininae, Recurvoidella, Textulariidae, Verneuilinidae
Subtaxa: Ammobacularia Ammobaculites Ammotium Discamminoides Eratidus Kutsevella Lamina Sculptobaculites Simobaculites
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of United States (1: California)
• Oligocene of Japan (1)
• Eocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), India (1), Japan (1), Spain (5), the United Kingdom (10), United States (2: California, Louisiana/Texas)
• Paleocene of Suriname (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Algeria (5), Argentina (1), Austria (3), Canada (27: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories), Chile (1), China (1), Egypt (8), France (1), Germany (10), the Marshall Islands (1), Poland (3), Portugal (19), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (11), South Africa (57), Ukraine (7), United States (3: Oklahoma, Texas)
• Jurassic of Algeria (2), Austria (3), Bulgaria (1), Egypt (4), France (3), Germany (71), Italy (1), Lebanon (1), Poland (8), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (8), Saudi Arabia (13), Somalia (1), Spain (42), Switzerland (4), Thailand (4)
• Triassic of Austria (16), Germany (3), Greece (1), Hungary (5), Italy (7), Japan (3), New Zealand (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), Turkey (4)
• Permian of Australia (10), Greenland (1), Lithuania (4), the Russian Federation (3)
• Carboniferous of Austria (1), France (1), United States (30: Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas)
Total: 451 collections including 646 occurrences