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
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