Spiroloculina d'Orbigny 1826 (foram)

Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Miliolidae

Parent taxon: Miliolidae according to A. Bertels 1964

See also Cushman 1927, Loeblich and Tappan 1988, Margerel 2009, Margerel 2012, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1997

Sister taxa: Ammovertella, Miliolinae, Neaguitinae, Pyrgo, Sigmoilina, Sinuloculina, Trillina

Subtaxa: Spiroloculina acescata Spiroloculina acutimargo Spiroloculina antillarum Spiroloculina cretacea Spiroloculina excavata Spiroloculina karina Spiroloculina lamposa Spiroloculina ornata Spiroloculina samoensis Spiroloculina wilcoxensis

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal herbivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Ecuador (1 collection), Greece (2), Mayotte (4), Panama (1), United States (2: Florida)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Egypt (2), Greece (1)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Australia (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (2), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Germany (6), India (1), Iran (2), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (2)

• Oligocene of United States (1: Louisiana)

• Eocene of Libya (1), Nigeria (2), South Africa (1), United States (3: Alabama, California)

• Paleocene to Eocene of India (1)

• Cretaceous of Egypt (1), Germany (1), Italy (2), Oman (1), Turkey (73), the United Kingdom (3)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Turkey (1)

• Jurassic of Turkey (13)

• Triassic of India (1)

Total: 136 collections including 141 occurrences

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