Superfamily Rotaliacea Ehrenberg 1839 (foram)

Foraminifera - Rotaliacea

Parent taxon: Rotaliina according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984

See also Gibson 1983, Loeblich and Tappan 1961 and Margerel 2012

Sister taxa: Acervulinacea, Annulopatellinacea, Asterigerinacea, Aubignyna, Bolivinacea, Bolivinitacea, Buliminacea, Carterinacea, Cassidulina, Cassidulinacea, Cassidulinidae, Caucasina, Chilostomellacea, Coryphostoma, Delosinacea, Discorbacea, Discorbinellacea, Discorbitura, Eouvigerinacea, Fursenkoinacea, Glabratellacea, Globorotalitidae, Hedbergellacea, Islandiellidae, Lepitorbitoididae, Mississippinidae, Nodosariacea, Nummulitacea, Orbitoidacea, Osangulariidae, Pappina, Planorbulinacea, Pleurostomellidae, Reussellidae, Siphoninacea, Siphoninidae, Spirillinacea, Spiroloxostoma, Turrilinacea

Subtaxa: Calcarinidae Pellatispiridae Rotaliidae

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Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Argentina (2 collections), Australia (3), France (5), Iceland (1), India (2), Italy (9), Japan (1), the Marshall Islands (2), Mauritius (2), Mayotte (4), New Caledonia (2), Palau (1), Panama (1), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (1), Suriname (3), Sweden (1), Taiwan (1), United States (15: Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Comoros (1)

• Pliocene of Ecuador (1), Egypt (4), Greece (1), Ireland (8), Italy (2), Pakistan (2), Panama (1), South Africa (2), Spain (2), Taiwan (1), United States (2: Mississippi, South Carolina)

• Miocene to Pliocene of Ireland (1), New Zealand (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (3), Austria (5), Cuba (2), Cyprus (5), Ecuador (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (26), India (6), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Ireland (16), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (2), Libya (2), Malaysia (1), New Zealand (3), Panama (2), Papua New Guinea (3), Peru (2), Poland (1), Romania (4), Slovakia (2), South Africa (1), Spain (1), United States (3: Florida, Mississippi, Texas)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1)

• Oligocene of Canada (2: British Columbia, Nova Scotia), Indonesia (1), Iran (2), Italy (11), Malta (4), New Zealand (1), Puerto Rico (1), Spain (1), Taiwan (2), Turkey (4), United States (1: Louisiana)

• Eocene of China (1), Hungary (2), India (10), Iran (4), Iraq (6), Italy (2), Libya (6), Maldives (8), Namibia (1), Nigeria (2), Pakistan (2), Peru (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (7), Taiwan (1), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Alaska, California, Florida, Oregon, Washington), Venezuela (1)

• Paleocene to Eocene of Bulgaria (1), China (1), India (17), Iraq (10), Turkey (2)

• Paleocene of Austria (5), China (8), Croatia (1), Denmark (1), French Guiana (18), India (25), Iran (4), Iraq (77), Italy (1), Libya (2), Pakistan (2), Romania (2), Slovakia (16), Slovenia (5), Spain (4), Suriname (4), Turkey (3)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Canada (1: British Columbia), Egypt (3), France (5), Germany (4), Iran (1), Italy (24), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Slovakia (1), Somalia (1), Spain (4), Tunisia (33), Turkey (13)

• Triassic of Indonesia (1), United States (1: Nevada)

• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 593 collections including 894 occurrences

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