Family Ataxophragmiidae Schwager 1877 (foram)

Foraminifera - Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae

Parent taxon: Lituolacea according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1961

See also Kiessling 2003

Sister taxa: Ammosphaeroidinidae, Discamminidae, Flatschkofelia, Haplophragmoiidae, Hauraniidae, Lituotubidae, Mayncinidae, Nautiloculinidae, Oxinoxisidae, Placopsilinidae, Sphaeramminidae

Subtaxa: Agglutisolena Ataxophragmium Eggerellinae Eggerelloides Kaeveria

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Ecology: stationary infaunal detritivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection), United States (1: Alaska)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Ireland (8)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1), Ireland (1)

• Miocene of Ecuador (1), Germany (54), Ireland (16), New Zealand (3), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (1)

• Oligocene of Canada (3: British Colombia, British Columbia, Nova Scotia), New Zealand (3), North Atlantic (4), Taiwan (1), United States (1: California)

• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)

• Eocene of Canada (2: British Columbia, Nova Scotia), Spain (1), Taiwan (11), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: California, Oregon, Washington)

• Cretaceous to Paleogene of Belize (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Egypt (1), France (2), Germany (4), Lebanon (2), New Zealand (2), Portugal (5), Romania (2), Slovakia (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (5)

• Jurassic of Egypt (1), Saudi Arabia (1)

• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (6), Oman (1), Slovenia (1), Turkey (1)

Total: 174 collections including 200 occurrences

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