Foraminifera - Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae
Full reference: A. D. d'Orbigny. 1826. Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 7:96-314
Parent taxon: Amphisteginidae according to A. R. Loeblich and H. Tappan 1984
See also Cushman 1927, d'Orbigny 1826, Margerel 2012 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Amphistegina euaensis Amphistegina gibbosa Amphistegina lessonii Amphistegina rotundata
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Egypt (5), French Polynesia (1), India (1), Japan (1), Jordan (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Mauritius (2), Mayotte (5), New Caledonia (1), Palau (1), Panama (1), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (1), Taiwan (1), United States (6: Florida, Hawaii)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Comoros (1)
• Pliocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Costa Rica (1), Egypt (7), Italy (3), Panama (1), United States (1: South Carolina)
• Miocene of Algeria (1), Austria (7), Cape Verde (1), Cuba (1), Cyprus (3), Egypt (2), France (9), Indonesia (4), Iran (4), Israel (1), Italy (11), Malaysia (2), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (4), Romania (3), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (1), Tanzania (1), Turkey (7), United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (3), China (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (11), Malta (8), New Zealand (1), Puerto Rico (1), Spain (4), United States (1: Florida)
• Eocene of Costa Rica (1), Iran (1), Maldives (1), Mexico (2), Romania (2), Spain (1), Tonga (1), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (1: Washington)
Total: 159 collections including 166 occurrences
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