Subfamily Discorbinae Ehrenberg 1838 (foram)

Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Discorbidae

Parent taxon: Discorbidae according to A. Bertels 1964

See also Loeblich and Tappan 1984

Sister taxa: Buccella, Discorbina, Discorbis, Discorinopsis, Epistominella, Mohlerina, Neoeponides, Orbitina, Rotorbinella, Siphonininae, Strebloides

Subtaxa: Eponides Hanzawaia Rosalina Valvulineria

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of France (4 collections), Iceland (1), Italy (2), Jordan (1), Mayotte (5), Panama (1), the Seychelles (1), Suriname (3), United States (9: Alaska, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Ecuador (2), Egypt (2), Greece (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Panama (1), South Africa (2), United States (2: North Carolina, South Carolina)

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

• Miocene to Oligocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (2), Austria (2), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Cape Verde (1), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ecuador (2), Germany (22), India (1), Italy (2), Panama (2), Peru (1), Poland (1), South Africa (1), United States (7: California, Florida, Mississippi)

• Oligocene of Germany (2), New Zealand (1), North Atlantic (4), Taiwan (7), United States (4: California, Louisiana)

• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Ecuador (1), France (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Namibia (1), Nigeria (7), Spain (5), Taiwan (12), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (18: California, Florida, Louisiana, Louisiana/Texas, Oregon, Texas, Washington)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Turkey (1)

• Paleocene of Denmark (1), French Guiana (1), Libya (1), Puerto Rico (1), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Suriname (8), Togo (2), United States (1: Missouri)

• Cretaceous of Azerbaijan (2), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (2), Italy (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (12), New Zealand (1), Romania (1), Tanzania (4), Tunisia (2), United States (1: Texas)

Total: 211 collections including 279 occurrences

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