Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Parent taxon: Discorbinae according to A. Bertels 1964
See also Cushman 1927, Margerel 2012, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1997
Sister taxa: Hanzawaia, Rosalina, Valvulineria
Subtaxa: Eponides keenani Eponides kleinpelli Eponides lodoensis Eponides lunata Eponides mexicana Eponides parantillarum Eponides toulmini Eponides umbonatus
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Jordan (1 collection), Mayotte (5), the Seychelles (1), Suriname (3), United States (3: Maryland, South Carolina)
• Pliocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Ecuador (2), Egypt (2), South Africa (2)
• Miocene to Oligocene of Canada (1: Nova Scotia)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)
• Miocene of Australia (2), Cape Verde (1), Germany (14), Poland (1), South Africa (1), United States (2: California, Florida)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), North Atlantic (4), United States (4: California, Louisiana)
• Eocene of Canada (1: British Columbia), Hungary (2), Nigeria (3), Spain (5), Taiwan (2), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (14: California, Florida, Louisiana/Texas, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Turkey (1)
• Paleocene of French Guiana (1), Puerto Rico (1), Slovakia (3), Spain (1), Suriname (8), Togo (2), United States (1: Missouri)
• Cretaceous of Egypt (1), the Netherlands (12), New Zealand (1), Tanzania (4)
Total: 117 collections including 133 occurrences
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