Foraminifera - Fusulinoidea - Fusulinidae
Parent taxon: Fusulinoidea according to K. Ueno 2007
See also Cushman 1927, Davydov 1996, Forke 2002, Loeblich and Tappan 1984 and Zhang 1982
Sister taxa: Aljutovella, Aljutovellidae, Alpinoschwagerina, Boultoniidae, Citronites, Eostaffellidae, Eowaeringella, Frumentella, Kansanella, Klamathina, Likharevites, Nagatodarvasiella, Nagatoella, Neoschwagerinidae, Neostaffella, Occidentoschwagerina, Ozawainellidae, Paleofusulinidae, Paraleeina, Parastaffelloides, Parawedekindellina, Parazellia, Plectofusulina, Polydiexodinidae, Profusulinellidae, Pseudostaffellidae, Putrella, Schubertellidae, Schwagerinidae, Seminovella, Staffellidae, Thompsonella, Tumulotriticites, Ultradaixina, Verbeekinidae, Wedekindellina, Wutuella
Subtaxa: Beedeininae Eofusulininae Fusulinellinae Fusulininae Quasifusulininae
Type: Fusulina
Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal omnivore
Distribution:
• Permian of Arctic Ocean (1 collection), Austria (18), Bolivia (1), Canada (3: British Columbia, Nunavut), Croatia (1), Indonesia (1), Japan (4), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (8), South Korea (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tajikistan (51), Turkey (39), United States (138: Alaska, California, Kansas, Nevada, Texas)
• Carboniferous to Permian of the Russian Federation (2), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Carboniferous of Arctic Ocean (1), Austria (14), Canada (22: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (11), Greenland (22), Iran (4), Italy (3), Japan (4), Kyrgyzstan (10), Mexico (4), the Russian Federation (3), South Korea (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (15), Tajikistan (7), Thailand (2), Turkey (37), Ukraine (4), United States (339: Alaska, Arizona, California, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 780 collections including 1104 occurrences