Orbitolites (foram)

Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Soritidae

Parent taxon: Soritidae according to W. Kiessling 2003

See also Cushman 1927, Loeblich and Tappan 1988 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Archaisinae, Fusarchaiasinae, Marginopora, Opertorbitolites, Opertorbitolitinae, Praerhapydionininae, Pseudorhapydionina, Pseudotaberina, Soritinae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Haiti (1 collection), New Zealand (1)

• Eocene of Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), India (5), Iran (2), Libya (4), Maldives (7), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Slovenia (1), Somalia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (8), Turkey (1)

• Paleocene to Eocene of China (1), India (2), Iraq (11)

• Paleocene of China (1), India (1), Iraq (7)

Total: 61 collections including 69 occurrences

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