Foraminifera - Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Synonym: Ellipsolagena Silvestri 1923
Full reference: A. E. Reuss. 1850. Neue Foraminiferen aus den Schichten des österreichischen Tertiärbeckens. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1:365-390
Parent taxon: Bulimininae according to A. Bertels 1964
See also Cushman 1927, Kiessling 2003, Loeblich and Tappan 1987, Margerel 2009, Margerel 2012 and Silvestri 1923
Sister taxon: Bulimina
Subtaxa: Fissurina annectens Fissurina fimbriata Fissurina laevigata Fissurina lucida Fissurina orbignyana Fissurina perforata Fissurina punctata Fissurina strigolata Fissurina tibiscencis
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (1: Nunavut collection)
• Pliocene of New Zealand (1), Panama (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), India (1), New Zealand (3), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of India (1), Spain (2), Tonga (1)
• Paleocene of Spain (2)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: British Columbia), New Zealand (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (6)
Total: 25 collections including 28 occurrences
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