Foraminifera - Orbitoidacea - Lepidocyclinidae
Parent taxon: Lepidocyclinidae according to R. L. Squires and R. A. Demetrion 1992
See also Cushman 1927, Loeblich and Tappan 1984 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Eulepidina, Lepidocyclininae, Polylepidina
Subtaxa: Lepidocyclina (Nephrolepidina) Lepidocyclina antillea
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Miocene of Cyprus (3 collections), India (1), Indonesia (7), Italy (1), Japan (3), Malaysia (2), Somalia (14), Tanzania (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1), Malta (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (8), Costa Rica (3), France (1), Italy (4), Malta (8), Pakistan (1), Puerto Rico (2), Somalia (7), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkey (1), United States (12: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi)
• Eocene of Belize (1), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), Mexico (5), Panama (4), Romania (2), United States (3: Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Paleocene to Oligocene of Belize (1)
• Paleocene of Pakistan (1)
Total: 104 collections including 166 occurrences
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